Biden Cast Doubt On Gaza’s Death Statistics — But Officials Cite Them Internally

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reporters: “I have no notion that the Palestinians are telling the truth about how many people are killed.” But within Biden’s own administration, officials have consistently cited the death toll and other data provided by authorities inside Gaza, according to a HuffPost review of internal State Department documents.

In two reports written by State’s Operations Center and circulated within the department on Oct. 24 and 25, administration officials reported casualties in Gaza by citing two outside sources who quoted the Gaza ministry in their reports:. And in one instance in which a situation report questioned the accuracy of figures from the Gaza ministry, on Oct.

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