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 Completely unsurprisingly, Hamas’ casualty data has all the hallmarks of making up shit from whole cloth. 

“Most likely, the Hamas ministry settled on a daily total arbitrarily. We know this because the daily totals increase too consistently to be real. Then they assigned about 70% of the total to be women and children, splitting that amount randomly from day to day. Then they in-filled the number of men as set by the predetermined total. This explains all the data observed.”

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/how-gaza-health-ministry-fakes-casualty-numbers