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the_origami_fox 2 hours ago

After speaking to the Gemini chat bot, here are 3 highly contentious points it raised as fact, citing Wikipedia (a community encyclopedia) as its main source, as well as counter arguments I have seen that it did not raise:

- the IDF has only named around 8,000 Hamas members, so all the remaining deaths must be civilians. Counter: This is an incredibly high standard for military deaths that is applied to no other conflict on earth.

- All the 70,000 deaths are war related. Counter: Up to 10,000 natural deaths are expected in Gaza over a 2 year period. The Hamas Ministry of of Health labelled all deaths over the period as "martyrs" (war deaths) and disregarded natural deaths completely over the 2 year war period. The notion that Gazans achieved immortality unless killed by Israel is pure fantasy.

- 10,000 bodies are still buried beneath rubble without identification. Counter: this number should have been reduced with the ceasefire and with the strong perverse incentives of Gazans to increase their own casualty count. The resulting 15% increase in total deaths would have been widely reported on by mainstream media. However, other than a modest increase of identifications at the start of the main ceasefire, this did not happen. While it is still possible given the widespread destruction in Gaza, this stretches the credibility of the argument (and means less people are dead, which is good).

samrus an hour ago | parent [-]

This appears to not be discussing the article at all. To me it looks like and attempt at IDF propaganda

the_origami_fox an hour ago | parent [-]

Antizionist