UK is working to rescue its citizens as 'scared and desperate' people begin looting food

“Officials said that Israel and Egypt were prepared to let foreigners leave the Strip which is under heavy Israeli bombardment, but Hamas had refused.”

    • ???
      7•1 year ago

      The 8k number is confirmed by many organizations. The whole idea that the number is disputed comes from American politics.

      • @TokenBoomer
        -5•1 year ago

        It’s amazing that Israel is always the victim, yet never does anything wrong.

        • ???
          9•1 year ago

          Here’s a list: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/despite-bidens-doubts-humanitarian-agencies-consider-gaza-toll-reliable-2023-10-27/

          I bolded them for you

          U.N. and other international agencies say there can be small discrepancies between the final casualty numbers and those reported by the Gaza health ministry straight after attacks, but that they broadly trust them.

          “We continue to include their data in our reporting and it is clearly sourced,” the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in a statement to Reuters.

          “It is nearly impossible at the moment to provide any UN verification on a day-to-day basis.”

          Dr Mike Ryan, Executive Director of the Geneva-based World Health Organization’s Health Emergencies Programme, said last week figures released by both sides “may not be perfectly accurate on a minute-to-minute basis, but they grossly reflect the level of death and injury on both sides of that conflict.”

          New York-based Human Rights Watch also says the casualty figures have generally been reliable, and that it has not found big discrepancies in its verification of past strikes on Gaza.

          “It’s worth noting that the numbers that are coming out since October 7th are generally consistent or within logic for the scale of killings one would expect, given the intensity of bombardment in such a densely populated area,” Omar Shakir, Israel and Palestine Director at Human Rights Watch, said.

          “Those numbers are in line with what one might expect, given what we’re seeing on the ground through testimony, through satellite imagery and otherwise,” he told Reuters.

            • ???
              8•1 year ago

              Nah. Maybe he’ll come to his senses? Or maybe the UN is antisemetic?

    • @SparlockEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      The 8k number also comes from Hamas, the same people who said that 500 people died in the hospital explosion (and blamed it on Israel). Go see the estimates literally anybody else made. All of these numbers come from Hamas.

      You know this is propaganda right? That number never came from Hamas go find them quoting it as fact, I’ll wait.

      The number came from an interview with a doctor right after the attack and it was mistranslated on Aljazeera. Other news agencies never fact checked it and ran with the number attributing it to Hamas.

      • ???
        0•1 year ago

        The number of casualities there was 471. 500 is an acceptable estimate.

        • @SparlockEnglish
          0•1 year ago

          I thought I blocked your genocide apologizing ass… well that’s fixed now.