According to ME24 - Middle East (@MiddleEast_24) a new voice of
the Middle East - aggregating and curating news, politics and trends from the
Middle East and North Africa, Hamas has announced it will pay stipends to
around 50,000 widows of fighters killed since October 7.
At the same time, Hamas claims that approximately 70,000 Palestinians in
total were killed during the war.
Now just do the math.
If 50,000 of the dead were fighters, and the total claimed death toll is
70,000, that leaves around 20,000 civilians. In other words 70% were combatants
Remind ourselves of what the global pro-Palestinian narrative has been.
70000 innocent Palestinians murdered, genocide, ethnic cleansing…
…the narrative pushed globally has been that the vast majority of those
killed were women and children, used to justify claims of indiscriminate
killing and genocide. Those claims cannot coexist with Hamas’s own numbers.
You cannot say most casualties were civilians while simultaneously
acknowledging tens of thousands of combatant deaths. Both statements cannot be
true at the same time.
The math simply doesn’t math.
If you want to accuse an entire nation of committing a genocide, at least
be consistent with your numbers.
Numbers are being used as weapons, and when you place them side by side,
this narrative and propaganda and antisemitic rhetoric collapse immediately.
Civilian deaths whilst tragic, always, is a byproduct of war. But
exaggerating or manipulating figures does not honour civilians, it exploits
them. And that’s all they become, numbers.
If casualty numbers are going to be used to make the most serious
accusations possible, they must withstand the most basic test.
These don’t and therefore stop watering down the word genocide, and apply
it to genuine genocides happening in the world, ie Iran, Sudan, Nigeria.
NOTE.
Exact figures coming out of Gaza are inherently unreliable because they
originate from a Hamas-run system that does not separate civilian deaths from
fighters.
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