| ▲ | cogman10 4 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||
> Well, it's certainly not limited to bodies that were confirmed by officials in a hospital or morgue. A lot of the casualty reports were from a Google form, or later, a self-hosted form Yes it is. Literally on that form "Not registered with the Palestinian Ministry of Health". This is a form to report missing people, the number of the dead are people identified by a doctor. Though that number has stagnated because all the hospitals have been destroyed by Israel. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | dlubarov 4 hours ago | parent [-] | ||||||||||||||||
No, that's just saying that the form is for reporting casualties that are not already registered with the MoH. Hamas' casualty numbers came from hospitals and morgues only in the first few months of war; that hasn't been the case for a long time. This isn't controversial - Hamas has been fairly open about incorporating "reliable media sources". I think only Hamas knows the breakdown for their latest numbers, but earlier they used to acknowledge how many casualty reports were based on online form submissions. For example you can see some old data in Figure 11b here: https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/sites/default/files/pdf/... | |||||||||||||||||
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