The number of deaths at the Al-Ahli Arab hospital caused by the misfired Palestinian Islamic Jihad missile on Wednesday night may have been grossly misrepresented by local sources, according to Thursday reports from a number of independent intelligence sources as well as European news sources.

Local Hamas-run Gazan sources allege that 471 people were killed at the hospital; foreign independent intelligence sources claimed instead that the number was closer to 10-50.

France’s Le Monde noted in a Thursday analysis that at least 15 lifeless bodies were visible in verified video footage of the area moments after the explosion. Four of those were bodies of infants.

[Why would anyone take the word of Hamas for an accurate body count? The news media likes to refer to the “Health Ministry in Gaza,” but that’s Hamas. Hamas routinely lies and strategizes to create large body counts for its propaganda war against Israel. Every media outlet that passes these along uncritically and unskeptically is either a stooge or a willing participant in terror propagandizing. — Ed]