There is no independent corroboration, and zero reason to believe the figure is remotely accurate.
This is but one glaring example. The entire article has a heavy anti-Israel slant. Why?
The IDF has dropped thousands of bombs on urban areas of Gaza. How could it not be at least 34,000 dead? Seems rather silly to claim the figure is propaganda when anyone with a pair of eyes can see the devastation on TV.
So if Hamas tells you half a million innocent people died, you will believe that as well because CNN and MSNBC keep showing you a lot of rubble?
What you see on TV is propaganda for the most part. Just a couple of days ago, the UN (OCHA) revised the published number of women and children killed downward by almost half. Never mind that they count young men of fighting age as children.
Israel doesn’t allow independent journalists inside Gaza and has killed 90+ Palestinians journalists.
If you include the people the IDF has buried in mass graves, or the people buried in the rubble, the number is much higher.
Fun fact, Gaza has more debris than Ukraine, even though Ukraine’s front lines are much larger and the war has been ongoing for much longer. Bibi is even worse than Putin
