I don’t want to make that accusation against Iron-Awe, but there is a disparity in how people in general seem to frame this. Anything which doesn’t have Israel as the world’s biggest villain gets dismissed and anything put out by Hamas gets less sceptical treatment. I don’t quibble over numbers too much, because they’re most likely wrong, but civilians will have died all the same so it seems like arguing over split hairs. Though, the dodgy missile at Al-Ahli shows that some civilian casualties will come from Hamas at least, yet the ceasefire talks are only aimed at Israel.
The BBC, and others, have utterly shamed themselves with such rubbish and that they consistently make amateurish errors over this conflict alone shows there is an institutional issue, in my opinion. Someone probably skim read that Reuters report and leapt to a conclusion through a biased assumption. Jeremy Bowen was appalling with displaying personal opinion as some sort of statement of fact the other day.
