The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza has deleted thousands of names from its reported death toll, including at least 1,000 children, as revealed by recent research. A total of 3,400 previously recorded deaths are absent from the latest updates, causing concern about potential intentional inflation of casualty figures. Researchers noted the lists' unreliability, with methods of data collection open to manipulation, including a public Google form that allows anyone to submit names. This raises significant issues given the media's reliance on these numbers and their impact on international responses and political actions.
The lists were quite unreliable. We found rafts and rafts of mistakes.
There were three reporting methodologies... an online Google form that anyone can just fill in.
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