Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) joined “Fox & Friends” on Tuesday to accuse the Biden administration and the United Nations of being “gullible” for believing false casualty numbers in the Gaza Strip. Cotton reacts to a new United Nations report that has reduced the number of civilian casualties in the Gaza Strip by nearly half, saying Hamas has made several moves in the hope that the United States will pressure Israel to end the war. He explained that the number of deaths per month had been exaggerated.
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Tom Cotton: of united nations has long been a notorious hotbed of hatred against Israel, and the United Nations can never be trusted in matters related to Israel. In the eyes of Israelis and Americans, every civilian death is a tragedy. But for Hamas, every civilian death is a strategy. Hamas knows that it cannot defeat Israel militarily. So they use civilians as human shields, hide under and behind them, try to increase the death toll, exaggerate on the gullible United Nations and gullible Joe Biden, and put political pressure on Israel. By doing so, they are trying to defeat Israel politically. Israel will end this war. Joe Biden’s current position is effectively a victory for Hamas over Israel, because if Hamas survives, Hamas wins.
Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc, via Getty Images)
In a dramatic change, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has revised its data on Palestinian casualties in the seven-month long Gaza war, cutting the number of women and children by almost half. It was previously reported that he was killed in hostilities between Israel and the Iranian-backed terrorist organization Hamas.
According to an infographic published in OCHA daily report for May 6thThe number of women killed in the fighting is said to be 9,500, but the organization acknowledged that it relied on figures from the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry, putting the figure at 14,500 since the start of the war on October 1. Alleges that a child was murdered. 7.
Two days later, on May 8, the report said: The UN agency appears to have cut that number almost in half.Instead, it shows that approximately 4,959 women and 7,797 children have been killed in the war so far. The war began after thousands of Hamas-led terrorists invaded southern Israel from Gaza, slaughtering more than 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and taking about 240 hostages.
When asked to explain the sudden change in statistics, Farhan Aziz Haq, spokesperson for UN Secretary-General António Guterres, told FOX News Digital that the breakdown was based on data from the Gaza Ministry of Health and that He said the figure was “possible.” depends on the unique verification process you carry out. ”
“The UN team on the ground in Gaza is unable to independently verify these figures, given the prevailing situation on the ground and the huge number of deaths,” the spokesperson said. “This is why all numbers used by the United Nations explicitly cite the Gaza Ministry of Health as the source.”
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FOX News’ Ruth Marks Eglash contributed to this report.
