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Andrea Peyser reports the news that Hamas’s fatality claims in the war it has undertaken against Israel are lies. She takes note of Hamas’s silent admission to this effect in the New York Post column “Hamas admits it lied to the world about how many children and civilians died in Gaza.”

The lies aren’t really news — they have been exposed as such by observant analysts for a while now — and they extend to the absolute number of alleged deaths, not only the proportion of combatants to civilians. John Spencer made the latter point his specialty.

Peyser writes: “[Hamas and its sympathizers] have denied the truth that Hamas raped its prisoners, invented atrocities by Israeli forces, and denied Israel has the right to exist. They also made up how many Gazans died. We know this because Hamas admits it.”

Analyze this:

In its March 2025 fatality list, 3,400 “victims” simply vanish. Previously listed as people who perished last August and October, it turns out Hamas invented them.

That includes 1,080 children Hamas claimed were killed by Israel that never were.

Of course, the media and protesters parroted these numbers without question. Will they show any remorse now? Will they start treating official proclamations from the Hamas-controlled agencies as what they are — propaganda and prevarications?

This has been obvious for quite a while. A year ago David Adesnik’s 2024 made essentially this case in the Wall Street Journal column “Hamas’s Casualty Numbers Games.” Adesnik called out the Biden administration and the United Nations for taking the casualty numbers of the so-called Gaza Health Ministry “at face value.”

But Adesnik needn’t have roamed that far from the Journal to find actors serving up terrorist lies that promote a genocidal cause. Over in the Journal’s news pages, we find stories that routinely take Hamas casualty numbers “at face value” (to use Adesnik’s phrase). Only last week, the Journal reported: “Israel began bombing Gaza shortly after the Hamas-led attacks on Oct. 7, 2023, left 1,200 dead and another 250 taken hostage. More than 50,000 people have been killed in Gaza during the war, according to Palestinian health authorities, who don’t say how many were combatants.”

Both the the New York Post and the Wall Street Journal (Dow Jones & Company) are News Corp. properties. Both the Post and the Journal are headquartered at 1211 Avenue of the Americas. So far as I can tell, however, the news reported by Peyser hasn’t made its way to the news pages of the Journal.