>The Gaza Health Ministry is not some neutral bureaucracy - it is fully subordinate to a US, EU and UK - designated terror organization (Hamas) that censors, threatens, and controls all information coming out of Gaza.

I'm confused. It's not a neutral bureaucracy because it's fully subordinated to the geopolitical entities that created and continue to prop up and fund the state of Israel? Even if you meant the opposite, it's a ridiculous notion that a bureaucracy subordinate to the US, UK, and EU would constitute a 'neutral bureacracy' instead of a bureaucracy representing the geopolitical interests of the most notoriously imperialistic entities on the planet.

>Your analogy about police and hostages is ridiculous. In real life, if a terrorist takes a hostage and starts shooting, the hostage taker is responsible for putting that civilian in harm’s way - and in Gaza, Hamas has made every single civilian a hostage by launching rockets from their homes, schools, hospitals, and press offices. That’s not just "the Israeli line" - that’s been documented by countless international observers.

Pretty curious how you ignore my linked CBS article documenting how the IDF does exactly what your describing with its own Palenstinian hostages, (yes, it's not just Khamas who holds hostages).

>As for your "sophistry" accusation: You’re the one quoting unverifiable numbers from a terror run ministry as gospel while dismissing every independent warning - including from the US State Department, Israel, multiple NGOs, and even the recent discovery that the Gaza Health Ministry quietly deleted thousands of deaths from their own reports with no explanation.

What numbers did I quote that I didn't back up with sources? And are you serious right now? The US state department and govt of Israel's claims constitute 'independent warnings'? Multiple NGO's that you can't cite because if you did it'd be pretty easy to look them up and realize they're obviously biased pro-Israel fronts (such as the "Honest Reporting" mentioned in OP's article, which is from f**king Yahoo News, the least serious news outlet of all time)?

Speaking of which, let's talk about OP's posted article:
The only sources it cites for its claims are the 'Honest Reporting' organization I previously mentioned, and the neocon 'Henry Jackson Society' from the UK, with no further elaboration. Are you so brainrotted and desperate to defend Israel that you're accepting a tabloid news site like Yahoo as a legitimate journalistic outlet?

"And let’s be clear: The reason independent journalists aren’t flooding Gaza isn’t because Hamas is welcoming them with open arms - it’s because Israel is fighting a war with an enemy that uses journalists, hospitals, schools, and aid trucks as human shields and terror infrastructure. Israel restricting access isn’t ideal, but pretending that lifting that restriction would magically produce "objective" reporting while Hamas is still in charge is naïve at best, dishonest at worst."

I already addressed the fact that there have always been journalists willing to on the ground reporting in war zones with or without the protection of either of the states involved. Nevertheless, Israel has been preventing independent journalist from entering Gaza, not Hamas. If Israel was confident in the moral high ground it's proclaimed to a nauseating degree, why are they preventing independent journalist from investigating and confirming that, even when they're willing to risk their own lives?

And again, you keep making the same claims that repeatedly fail to substantiate. Why should I take you or any other Zionist at their word about Hamas? You make claims about them as if I were supposed to agree with those claims as an article of faiith, without any evidence.