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US official says Gaza death toll is believed to possibly be higher than claimed
2023-11-10
[IsraelTimes] US officials believe the corpse count in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
may well be even higher than the more than 10,000 reported by the Strip’s Hamas
...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
-run Health Ministry, Assistant Secretary of State Barbara Leaf told a US House panel yesterday.
Is she one of the staffers who signed one of those dissent memos, unhappy because America hasn’t nuked Israel for picking on those poor, brown Palestinians?
Israeli officials, US President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. I'm not working for you. Don't be such a horse's ass....
and others have challenged the ministry’s figures — which topped more than 10,800 killed in Gaza as of today — as exaggerated.

"We think they’re very high, frankly, and it could be that they’re even higher than are being cited," she says, later adding this is "very possible."

Leaf says US officials draw on "sourcing from a variety of folks who are on the ground," but gives no other details of the US assessment.

Leaf notes that Hamas health officials do not separate the numbers of civilians and fighters killed, and says it is difficult to know the true number of deaths as long as the fighting continues.
Related:
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Barbara Leaf: 2023-05-06 U.S. Officials Criticized for Participating in Iraq Forum with ''Known Terrorist''
Barbara Leaf: 2023-03-20 Israel, PA renew vow to curb violence and halt unilateral moves at Egypt summit
Posted by:trailing wife

#13  We can only hope.
Posted by: Skidmark   2023-11-10 12:13  

#12  We can only hope.
Posted by: Skidmark   2023-11-10 12:09  

#11  Hard to know how many Gazans are entombed in the tunnels.
Posted by: Glenmore   2023-11-10 11:10  

#10  agreed & stop giving them money.
Posted by: Chaimp Jones2780   2023-11-10 10:48  

#9  Ref #7: Wahhahahahaha...(snort), whahahhaha.
Posted by: Besoeker   2023-11-10 10:36  

#8  ^No, I want the UN out of the US
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia   2023-11-10 10:24  

#7  ^ to be followed by moving the national government to East St Louis, IL.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2023-11-10 10:04  

#6  If Gaza is flattened, that would be a great place to move the UN.
Posted by: Super Hose   2023-11-10 09:37  

#5  Possibly, sure. But --
Posted by: Bobby   2023-11-10 08:52  

#4  
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2023-11-10 08:40  

#3  Department of State is a convenient cover action for our highly paid and credentialed globalist shi* disturbers. You know who they are.

Politically appointed AMBO's and faux diplomacy are the readily available proof.

Posted by: Besoeker   2023-11-10 08:01  

#2  The State Department is an unregistered lobbyist for the 'other side'.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2023-11-10 07:40  

#1  Leaf says US officials draw on "sourcing from a variety of folks who are on the ground," but gives no other details of the US assessment.

"I feel it!"?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2023-11-10 02:53  

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