Had Israel previously admitted the credibility of the Gazan data, as it did recently, this would have bolstered awareness, both domestically and abroad, of the war’s price and intensified pressure to end it
The number of dead civilians is an ongoing point of dispute in every war these days. This dispute is characterized by methodological arguments about how the dead are counted, but behind it lies a clearly political issue: The one who controls the numbers also controls the narrative that the war creates. The war in the Gaza Strip is no exception in this regard.