"But in the United States, Israel's top ally, then-President Joe Biden cast doubt over the suffering and death count of Palestinians, as provided by the Ministry of Health in Gaza, to push back against calls for ending the brutal Israeli assault. list of 3 itemsend of list What they say to me is I have no notion that the Palestinians are telling the truth about how many people are killed. I'm sure innocents have been killed, and it's the price of waging a war, Biden said in October 2023."
"Rights advocates say Western officials and media outlets helped the Israeli denial of the scope of atrocities in Gaza, contributing to the dehumanisation of Palestinians. Abed Ayoub, executive director at the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), said the US government attempted to gaslight the world and discredit the Health Ministry numbers. This government played a role in that, and the Biden administration played a role in that, he told Al Jazeera."
In the first 18 days of the war the Israeli military killed more than 7,000 Palestinians, including nearly 3,000 children. Initial Palestinian Health Ministry casualty figures were publicly questioned by Western leaders, including then-President Joe Biden, who said he had no confidence in the numbers and framed civilian deaths as a cost of war. More than two years later the Israeli military acknowledged it had killed more than 70,000 Palestinians, aligning with the Health Ministry's data. Rights advocates say Western officials and media outlets contributed to denial and the dehumanisation of Palestinians and accuse the US government of attempting to discredit Palestinian casualty data.
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