How the dead are counted in Gaza
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By BBC Verify team
BBC News
In any warzone, counting the dead is a challenge. Gaza is no different.
As battles there intensify, the chaotic situation - with bombardment by Israeli forces, on-the-ground fighting, communications blackouts, fuel shortages and crumbling infrastructure - makes getting accurate information on the numbers of people who have died extremely demanding.
And Palestinian officials have said there are now "significant difficulties" in obtaining updated information because of the interruption of communications in the Gaza Strip.
The health ministry is Gaza's official source for death numbers - which it updates regularly. On Monday evening, it said 11,240 people had been killed, including 4,630 children, since the Hamas attacks on Israel on 7 October which prompted the current war.
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(Hamas)
That's what the article is about
There's a CNN article where UNICEF states that the Gaza health ministry's numbers are accurate. Do I have to link it?
May as well post this for you to read also. (Though it would seem you didn't read the article you are replying to, so my hopes aren't high.)
One snippet out of a lengthy article.
Why news outlets and the U.N. rely on Gaza’s Health Ministry for death tolls
And another:
What is Gaza’s Ministry of Health and how does it calculate the war’s death toll?
Israeli mindset Dead babies (dead future Hamas) Dead pregnant women being cut open to save their babies and fail (dead Hamas baby maker) Dead male children (dead future Hamas) Etc...
The amount of brain twisting these people do to justify their bloodlust and dehumanize even the dead is not even surprising anymore, just annoying. Look for them in every post, all the way down and downvoted to hell. Not that votes matter.