Almost Everything We're Told About Gaza is Wrong - Urban Warfare Expert John Spencer

Right of self-defense
Bring the war to an end as quickly as possible
Gaza (Hamas) Health Ministry casualty numbers ^b565b7
- There has never been a battle or a war where anybody has been able to say what the daily causality count is
- Been accurate in previous wars?
  - Yes after the war was close to UN numbers
  - Not during the war
  - Lied:
    - Battle of Jenin
      - The UN report to the Secretary General noted “Palestinians had claimed that between 400 and 500 people had been killed, fighters and civilians together. They had also claimed a number of summary executions and the transfer of corpses to an unknown place outside the city of Jenin. The number of Palestinian fatalities, on the basis of bodies recovered to date, in Jenin and the refugee camp in this military operation can be estimated at around 55.”
    - al-Ahli Hospital
      - NY Times admits its coverage of Gaza hospital blast relied too heavily on Hamas claims | The Times of Israel
      - As early as October, after false claims that 471 were killed by an alleged Israeli attack on al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City, Hamas’s credibility should have been shot.
      - Don’t Fall for Hamas’ Numbers Game | American Enterprise Institute - AEI
        
        A detailed Washington Institute for Near East Policy study of the reporting on casualties in the Israel–Hamas war reveals numerous discrepancies: For example, on October 19, Hamas officials reported that a total of 3,785 Gazans had died since the war’s inception, 307 more than the day before. Hamas also reported that for that same 24-hour period (October 18–19), 671 children had died. In other words, more children “died” than deaths reported overall. Ditto the statistics about the percentages of women and children killed. On October 18, per Hamas, 25 percent of total deaths for the war were children. One day later, that percentage magically jumped from 25 to 40 percent of total deaths. The math doesn’t add up.
- If true it’d include
  - Natural causes
  - By Hamas themselves or their own rockets falling short
  - Hamas fighter or any that attacked IDF
- It’s an aggregation, not counts
- Doesn’t include 13,000 children, dropped to 7,800 now
- 10-11,000 can’t track, might be under rumble claims Hamas
Only al-Shifa hospital has been destroyed
Hama’s strategy is PR, force U.S. to stop Israel and achieve massive political victory
People falling for Hamas trap
- World leaders (Not even saying its Hamas numbers)
- Press
Evacuating Urban Areas ^5c1a45
- Best to save civilian lives
- Minimizes offensive effectiveness
- ‘Civilian harm mitigation’ techniques
- Steps
  - Millions of Phone calls and text messages
  - Handing out maps
- Israel successfully evacuated 850,000 out of the 1 million civilians from the North of Gaza
Fallacy to think if you bomb less it’ll lead to less casualties
Fallacy: Israel has used more unguided missiles
United States forced a Gaza election in 2005