Reading all points of view, the only thing that you can clearly say is that the current conflict in Israel over the response to the October 7th attacks is more Information Warfare than physical.
The persecuted are always better at putting on a show for the cameras than the ones in power– just look at the protests in this country! The Palestinians are particularly adept in making it look like they are being oppressed, and the Israeli’s counter-narratives are also looking pretty adept.
Which means it’s hard to trust any information coming out of that area about the nature of what’s going on– hence the latest update on casualties:
The UN just made an embarrassing adjustment to their estimated number of deaths in Gaza. They just halved the number of women and children previously estimated to have been killed.
“While more than 9,500 women and 14,500 children were reported among the fatalities by the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on May 6, two days later that number was revised significantly downward. Today, under 5,000 women and 8,000 children are now officially listed by the UN as casualties.”
Part of the problem was that they were using numbers from Hamas-controlled sources. And even now, that’s still what they’re relying on — the numbers from the Gaza Health Ministry. Listen as the UN spokesperson tries to explain how the numbers can be so off — but hey, you can rely on them, because we’re always checking on them — even though they were running with incorrect numbers.
UN Revises/Reduces Gaza Death Numbers for Women, Children by Almost Half, Explanation Is Embarrassing – RedState