An article in the print edition of The New York Times with the headline “Gaza Deaths Surpass Any Arab War Losses in 40 Years” has sparked controversy for its portrayal of the recent Gaza-Israel conflict. This headline suggests that the estimated 20,000 deaths in Gaza have exceeded casualties in any Arab conflict over the past four decades. However, this claim overlooks the Syrian conflict from 2011 to 2021, which is believed to have resulted in over 306,000 civilian deaths.
The digital version of The Times presents a more specific headline, reading “Gaza Deaths Surpass Any Arab Loss in Wars With Israel in Past 40 Years,” and was published a day earlier. This headline more accurately reflects the context of the Gaza-Israel conflict.
Aviva Klompas, former head of speechwriting for Israel’s Permanent Mission to the U.N., criticized the print headline on social media. Klompas accused The Times of fabricating information, pointing out that a brief online search reveals data contradicting the print headline. She referenced a June 2022 report from the U.N. Human Rights Office, which estimates that the decade-long Syrian conflict resulted in over 306,000 civilian casualties, significantly higher than the Gaza conflict figures. The report represents the most comprehensive estimate of conflict-related civilian deaths in Syria to date.
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They are going to say they meant in wars with Israel.
If you read below the article, they do say that.
But no doubt they put it up to disparage Israel regardless
Lechorah;
When a government kills their own civilians , it’s not called a war . That should be self understood .
VDOK
New York Times surpasses any Jew hatred and fake news than any publication in last 80 years.
The Syrian war was against ISIS not civilians and that’s who was killed in that war this is the terrorist destroyed in a war of the country not talking about American help or doing and it was a war for Israel also and nothing anybody could do like if it happened in native Africa this with saying that five hundred thousand was killed is not one percent of the population there but in gaza it is and it doesn’t mean it’s correct also the war of Yemen we see now was cause of Israel
Well, it’s consistent in the sense that NYT reporting tends to be aspirational. Though in this case, not theirs.
The headline is indeed not accurate. But the story is accurate when it qualifies that it is referring to wars with Israel.
What the NYTIMES fails to stress is that this “war” is different from any other prior Israeli war. Prior Israeli wars were between two armies that did not try to hide behind civilians, and who war uniforms, clearly differentiating themselves from the civilian population.
However, Gazans decided to ELECT a terror organization that doesn’t wear uniforms and uses civilians as human shields. Such a conflict will AUTOMATICALLY result in relatively-high civilians casualties. While I feel bad for Gazan children, Israel has no choice but to kill civilians in order to get to Hamas. To do otherwise would be surrendering to terrorism and would become the new modus operandi of every terror organization.
306,000 deaths over TEN years is aprox 30,600 deaths PER YEAR
The death rate in Gaza IS MUCH higher than that. Its 20,000 in less than THREE MONTHS
Pathetic NY Times
., no, you have no clue what you are talking about. Over 230,000 civilians, including tens of thousands of children, were killed by the parties fighting in the Syrian war. You are equally clueless about the Yemeni war which is a political war and has nothing to do with Israel. Over 150,000 civilian Yemeni were killed in this war and 227,000 Yemenis died from hunger and lack of medical care due to this war.
Why do you hate Jews so much that you come to the defense of terrorists and not to the defense of those fighting terrorists?
Wackeyway, and your point regarding how many were killed in two months fighting terror vs a year is what? You realize you are quoting Hamas’s numbers, the numbers “provided” by the terrorists AND liars? Besides that their number are 100% inflated, the dead include Hamas members as well. How do you know if 10,000 of the dead are not Hamas terrorists as well?
A. who believes the leftist NYT?
B. who believes the lying Arab body count?
two negatives make a big negative…