Debris in Gaza. (Photo by Naaman Omar apaimages, by WAFA (Q2915969) in contract with a local company (APAimages)?? – Correspondence with Wiki Palestine (Q117834684)??, Public Domain)
New report just dropped: turns out Hamas’s “deadly death toll” was really just the deadliest disinformation campaign in modern war.
• Around 20% of all deaths in Gaza were caused by Hamas themselves—either directly or via misfired rockets.
• Roughly 9,000 names on the casualty list are just natural deaths—people who died of old age, illness, or unrelated causes, but were conveniently blamed on Israel. Apparently, not being immortal is now a war crime.
• Over 6,000 names of “identified dead” civilians—mostly women and children—were quietly removed after being previously listed as casualties. That’s not a clerical error. That’s narrative maintenance.
The report, by Professors Lewi Stone and Gregory Rose (April 2025), shows how Hamas systematically manipulated mortality data through the Gaza Ministry of Health and then spun it into media-ready atrocity propaganda via the Government Media Office.
The so-called “Gaza health ministry” turned into the extension of Hamas’s propaganda arm, churning out the most detailed and deceptive casualty lists in wartime history. One dataset for internal use, another for manipulative global outrage.
Bottom line:
The genocide libel was their last stronghold—but even that is easily falling apart under mild scrutiny.
I am so disheartened that the death toll numbers were not real.
As someone said, what is 50,000 dead Palestinians??? A Start!
The “Gaza Health Ministry” fiasco confirms the words of a “lay-philosopher” I knew well:
“Man has an infinite capacity for stupidity.”
This doesn’t only apply to the “media” – at least not totally – it also applies to those who swallowed the numbers indiscriminately… That’s a lot of people…