'The Telegraph reveals report: Hamas inflates Gaza death toll with cancer patients

December 14, 2024   

The headline of the British Telegraph today published a report by the British research center, the Henry Jackson Society, which indicates that the reports by the Hamas terrorist organization on the number of civilians killed in Gaza during the war were inflated in order to attribute to Israel deliberate harm to innocent people and to garner international support. According to the report, the Gaza Ministry of Health is blatantly inflating the number of deaths, and includes natural deaths due to diseases and the like, some from the period before the war, a lack of distinction between civilians and terrorists, age corrections, and data to increase the number of women and children killed. According to the report's authors, about 5,000 natural deaths were added to the list of victims, including cancer patients who were later found on hospital treatment lists. The Gaza Health Ministry estimates that more than 44,000 people have been killed since October 7, but according to Israeli and American data, about 17,000 of the dead were Hamas terrorists. According to the report, the global media is not presenting this figure. The report also reported that the Gaza Health Ministry also includes in the number of deaths Gazans who were killed as a result of a failed Hamas rocket launch or clashes with humanitarian aid convoys. An example is 17-year-old Ahmed Shaddad Helmi Barika, who was shot dead by Hamas terrorists while trying to obtain food for his family from a humanitarian aid shipment in December 2023. The research center's report attacks leading media outlets such as the BBC, the New York Times, and CNN for adopting these Hamas figures without any criticism, while contributing to the spread of Palestinian propaganda. The report indicates that the UN is also cooperating with the manipulation and presented combined data that does not distinguish between civilians and terrorists.