Israeli intelligence has been covertly surveilling officials from the Gaza Health Ministry to verify the accuracy of their data on civilian casualties. The Israeli military has acknowledged the reliability of the Gaza Health Ministry's numbers and now uses them internally as it does not track civilian casualty figures itself. This reliance on the Health Ministry's statistics comes despite the Israeli military's general practice of not accounting for civilian deaths unless they are connected to high-profile Hamas targets.
Report: Even Israeli intel/army rely on Gaza health ministry stats, consider them accurate. But also 🇮🇱 doesn’t track civilian death. “I don’t know how many people I killed as collateral damage. We only check that for senior Hamas targets. In other cases I didn’t care.” https://t.co/J61tMDR27P
"I trust the Health Ministry in Gaza more than the IDF for these statistics" on civilian deaths, one Israeli intelligence source told 972. "The army just doesn’t have the information." https://t.co/gWNboxD6VR
Israeli intelligence now relies on Gaza Ministry of Health for casualty numbers https://t.co/D6s7Y2y2uo
Israel is using the Gaza Health Ministry’s civilian casualty numbers and has found them to “reliable” because it’s not tracking the numbers, according to this reporting. https://t.co/Vxxz740YVu
Israeli intelligence secretly surveilled officials in Gaza’s Health Ministry to check if their data on the number of civilians killed in Gaza is 'reliable', Israeli intelligence sources told us. The army found the numbers are reliable and now regularly uses them internally in…