Mike Brest is a defense reporter at the Washington Examiner. Prior to joining the defense beat, he spent two years covering breaking news for the Examiner, and he worked at the Daily Caller in a similar capacity before that. Mike graduated from American University and is originally from the suburbs of Philadelphia.
The Biden administration is at odds with both the United Nations and international health organizations over whether to trust the death toll from the Hamas-controlled Palestinian Health Ministry.
“I have no confidence in the number that the Palestinians are using,” President Joe Biden said this week, which sparked outrage among pro-Palestinian groups, though he acknowledged that"innocents have been killed.""We all know that the Gazan Ministry of Health is just a front for Hamas. It’s run by Hamas, a terrorist organization.
“In the past, the five, six cycles of conflict in the Gaza Strip, these figures were considered as credible, and no one ever really challenged these figures,” United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East chief Philippe Lazzarini said, according to the Times of Israel.
Shortly after Biden's remarks, the Health Ministry released a document it said contained a list of names of the dead, though it did not specify civilian vs combatant deaths. The list could not be independently verified, in part because Gaza has been closed to outside journalists.
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