Please help us challenge this one-sided article questioning Gaza’s Ministry of Health’s credibility and the legitimacy of the Palestinian death toll numbers that it gives. The same skepticism shown in this article wouldn’t be applied to Israel, i.e. questioning Israel’s credibility, its data sources, and their final figures.
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Title of Piece: Isabel Debre: "Explainer: What is Gaza’s Ministry of Health and how does it calculate the war’s death toll?"
Media Outlet: CTV News
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Comments of the CJPME Media Researcher:
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Please help us challenge this one-sided article questioning Gaza’s Ministry of Health’s credibility and the legitimacy of the Palestinian death toll numbers that it gives. The same skepticism shown in this article wouldn’t be applied to Israel, i.e. questioning Israel’s credibility, its data sources, and their final figures. Here are some items to critique:
- The article specifies that the Ministry of Health is an agency controlled by Hamas and that information can come from the media office that is run by Hamas. It is a way of discrediting the Gaza Ministry of Health and questioning the Palestinian casualty numbers. The same critique, of course, could be levelled on Israel, as their numbers are also under governmental authority. Of course, CTV conveniently chooses not to go there.
- The article fails to mention that the Al-Ahli Hospital explosion’s investigations are inconclusive because Israel refused access to the site of the attack.
- The article mentions Israel or an Israeli spokesperson as a way to counterbalance the numbers given by Gaza’s Health Ministry and doesn’t question their numbers in the least, even though they are not on-site.
- The article implies that Palestinians can get killed because of Palestinians’ militant actions (e.g. errant rockets), although there's no concrete evidence for such casualties.
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