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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Chris McGreal

Can we trust casualty figures from the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry?

People watch a man carry the shrouded body of a child as others lie on trolleys and the ground
People transport the bodies of Palestinian people killed in an overnight Israeli bombardment in Rafah, southern Gaza, on Wednesday. Photograph: Ismael Mohamad/UPI/Shutterstock

In this time of war, the health ministry in Gaza has been given its own health warning. Joe Biden has questioned the reliability of its reporting of the number of people killed and wounded during the Israeli assault on Gaza – because the health ministry is run by Hamas.

“I have no notion that the Palestinians are telling the truth about how many people are killed. I’m sure innocents have been killed, and it’s the price of waging a war,” the US president said. “But I have no confidence in the number that the Palestinians are using.”

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