WATCH this hilarious satirist: Gaza death toll numbers were cooked

A new report from the Henry Jackson Society reveals significant discrepancies in casualty figures reported by Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry, suggesting deliberate manipulation of data to portray Israel as targeting civilians.

Key findings include that adult casualties were sometimes recorded as children, natural deaths were included in conflict statistics, deaths of fighting-age men (15-45) were disproportionately high, matching typical combatant profiles and media often failed to distinguish between civilian and combatant deaths.

The analysis examined 1,378 articles from major news outlets between February and May 2024. About 84% of publications didn't differentiate between civilian and combatant casualties in their reporting.

While the Gaza ministry reports over 44,000 total deaths, Israeli and U.S. military intelligence indicates roughly 17,000 were Hamas fighters - a distinction often missing from media coverage.

The report also found cases of misclassification, such as a 22-year-old listed as a four-year-old and a 31-year-old recorded as an infant.

"The manipulation of events and facts confirms that Hamas will distort the truth to further their own aims," Shadow Foreign Secretary Priti Patel told the Telegraph, urging media outlets to report more carefully on the conflict.

The hilarious and inimitable L.E. Staiman AKA Lyle Culpepper presents this satirical video about Hamas inflating the number of casualties.