The BBC's way of reporting on the protests in
Iran is to quote a statement by Khamenei that
the protestors are vandals trying to please Trump
What on earth are thinking of ?
Shameful
These people all walked out of the UN general assembly because they didn’t want to hear Netanyahu speak. Their job isn’t to be protesters. They’re diplomats and their job is to deal with governments they don’t like, but they’re more interested in virtue signaling for TikTok.
Piers, I’ve followed Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups for years, and I want to respond based on long-standing observation and experience.
There is good reason for pro-Israel voices, and others, to be skeptical of casualty data coming out of Gaza, particularly from the Hamas-run Health Ministry, and more broadly, from any governing branch under Hamas’ control.
Beyond the examples raised by other people in this thread, one crucial and often-overlooked point undermines the credibility of Hamas’ casualty figures: the absence of a significant number of martyrdom notices of fallen members. In previous conflicts between Israel and Palestinian factions, groups like Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) publicly honored their dead fighters. Martyrdom notices were standard, quick to be published, both as a cultural and ideological tool. They were issued to glorify the fallen and reaffirm the narrative of so-called resistance. But in this war, that practice has largely disappeared.
Hamas has published martyrdom notices for top members like Yahya Sinwar, Muhammad Deif, Marwan Issa, and some senior commanders.
Yes, some obituaries have surfaced online on affiliated Telegram channels or from family members on Facebook, but these are unofficial. Hamas and PIJ have not released formal notices like it has in past wars.
Why the sudden silence?
The most plausible explanation is this: Hamas and PIJ have suffered devastating losses, possibly between 20-30 thousand fighters. That’s far higher than in any previous round of fighting. Publicly acknowledging this would expose the extent of their military losses and undermine the narrative they’re aggressively pushing, that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
It’s important to understand that the Health Ministry does not distinguish between combatants and non-combatants. It simply reports aggregate deaths. The current Ministry of Health's claim stands at around 60,000 fatalities. If a little more than a third of those are fighters, it may alter the international perception of the war.
For example, if 25,000 fighters belonging to armed factions have been killed and the TOTAL number of Palestinian deaths is overestimated by 10%, the number of genuine civilian fatalities drops to around 29,000. That’s still tragic, but it challenges the narrative of indiscriminate slaughter and genocide that Hamas is promoting.
Will we ever know the true number of combatants killed? It will be difficult to know while Hamas/PIJ are in control of the data. These are not transparent actors; they are terrorist organizations fighting for survival, and I suspect they are manipulating casualty figures as a tool of information warfare.
I could elaborate further, but I hope this provides an argument as towhy the Ministry of Health's statistics, including Hamas's silence about its fighters who have been killed, should be treated with heavy skepticism. @piersmorgan
And the winner of the single dumbest post of all time goes to… @piersmorgan@PiersUncensored
How fucking retarded must you be to compare a video and images you can see with your own fucking eyes to the word of a lying manipulative narcissistic terrorist group that murders its own people.
Piers, it’s not just that you’re a joke. You’re just a charlatan. A fraud. A clickbait piece of trash. You are part of the problem. You’re an idiot.
Palestinian terrorists slipped up and made a mistake in their propaganda video. The plump arm of one of the terrorists is visible in the video, showing a sharp contrast with the emaciated arm of the starved hostage.
Gaza terrorists eat well as they starve the Israeli hostages.
Good catch @israelnewspulse.
Whilst the world debates if Sydney Sweeney is a Nazi because she has nice boobs, actual muslim Nazis are forcing a Jew to dig his own grave in an underground dungeon where he’s been held hostage for two years and is as starved and emaciated as a Holocaust victim…
Today, Palestinian Islamic Jihad released footage of Rom Braslavski.
Rom was kidnapped from the Nova music festival and has been held hostage in Gaza for close to 700 days.
Keir Starmer, Emmanuel Macron, and Mark Carney would like to give Rom's captors their own country.
@piersmorgan@netanyahu You are soooooo brainwashed @piersmorgan to the level that it seems you have no brains left over at all. You are spreading lies and ignoring the root cause- Hamas monsters won’t release and abuse Israeli hostages - you are insulting the Jewish people who care for life.
The @nytimes has 55+ million followers.
Its PR account, @NYTimesPR? Just 88,000.
So when the Times admitted its viral Gaza “starvation” blood libel showed a child with a serious pre-existing health condition, guess which account posted the clarification?
h/t @AmichaiStein1
The least the @nytimes could do, would be to post the correction of their starving boy story on their main site with 55 million followers. That would help mitigate the damage they have caused.
It speaks loudly that the original story was on the front page, top-of-the-fold right column, and the correction is on some Times PR site that no one follows.
The correction of a story published to 55 million followers was sent to only 80k followers. Clearly, a purposeful obfuscation to bury the retraction.
Why is the Editor in Chief Joseph Kahn @JosephKahn allowing this to happen, or worse, serving as a principal factor in the story and in the fake correction?
With a story of this prominence, he has to have been involved in the editing and in the strategy around the correction.
And stories like this lead lunatics to kill. It’s not just the reputational smear of a country, it’s a call to violence against Jews.
Tell me why I am wrong.