But the international condemnation over what Israel was and was not doing grew in part because the only casualty figures that were used came from the Gazan Health Ministry, which is part of the Hamas government. If the highest Hamas casualty figures that were lapped up by the international press were true, then by the end of the first year of the war, the casualty rate inside Gaza was some 42,000 people. Hamas simultaneously claimed that such numbers consisted entirely of civilian casualties while frequently posting about the “martyrs” of their movement who had been killed in battle with the
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