“The numbers are heavily relied up for official briefings on civilian casualties because with the exception of strikes on high-value targets, where senior officials are briefed on collateral damage, no civilian casualty figures or estimates are collected,” said the Israeli official, who cannot be identified in the media. “A lot of targets have been hit without prior analysis or estimates and there’s never any follow up collection.”

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    11 months ago

    Interesting that anyone should care about their opinion, as all other organizations like Amnesty International, the UN, the Red Cross/Crescent, etc all already independently agreed that the Palestinians’ numbers have been accurate throughout this genocide.

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      11 months ago

      Just to help shutup the voices that keep saying “hamas health minister” discrediting the numbers of civilians death. It also help when civil right group attempts to block support for Israel in different countries.

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      11 months ago

      Or those who most likely will die soon of illness, child birth, lack of food, lack of medicine and many other forms that intintioally ignore by media, and governments.