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2024-10-14 20:39:20 UTC - MISINFORMED_OR_POTENTIALLY_MISLEADING

False information According to Hamas, 42,289 people, civilian and military, have been killed as of 14th October¹. This is a known inflation² ⁴ and it is important to note the militants killed are not differentiated from civilians in Hamas records³. ¹https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/10/14/live-22-dead-80-wounded-as-israeli-army-shells-gaza-school-shelter#:~:text=In%20Gaza%2C%20at%20least%2042%2C289,Israeli%20attacks%20since%20October%202023. ²https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/gaza-fatality-data-has-become-completely-unreliable ³https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/25/bbc-admits-reporting-gaza-civilian-deaths-inaccurate/ ⁴https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2024/06/28/u-s-legislators-bar-state-department-from-citing-gaza-health-ministry-fatality-statistics/&ved=2ahUKEwiX4rb2246JAxX8VkEAHaN5J6EQFnoECBcQAQ&usg=AOvVaw0x6voojudCQLIg2UtQzysj

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• False information According to Hamas, 42,289 people, civilian and military, have been killed as of 14th October¹. This is a known inflation² ⁴ and it is important to note the militants killed are not differentiated from civilians in Hamas records³. ¹https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/10/14/live-22-dead-80-wounded-as-israeli-army-shells-gaza-school-shelter#:~:text=In%20Gaza%2C%20at%20least%2042%2C289,Israeli%20attacks%20since%20October%202023. ²https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/gaza-fatality-data-has-become-completely-unreliable ³https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/25/bbc-admits-reporting-gaza-civilian-deaths-inaccurate/ ⁴https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2024/06/28/u-s-legislators-bar-state-department-from-citing-gaza-health-ministry-fatality-statistics/&ved=2ahUKEwiX4rb2246JAxX8VkEAHaN5J6EQFnoECBcQAQ&usg=AOvVaw0x6voojudCQLIg2UtQzysj