The past 22 months have seen Israel engaged in a devastating military operation in Gaza. That has inevitably meant civilian casualties.

As of now, we do not know the exact number, not least because the figures are provided by the Hamas-run ministry of health and, at the most basic level, do not separate out terrorists from civilians.

But it is striking how few supposedly objective observers not only take the word of Hamas as gospel, but are willing to peddle any supposed statistic or revelation which paints Israelis as bloodthirsty monsters.

This week has seen one such claim go viral on social media – a claim so obviously preposterous that it calls into question not just the bias of those who are citing it but their very ability to engage in cognitive reasoning.

On Monday the IDF kil

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