The shoddy reporting on civilian deaths in Gaza

Let’s not debase a terrible tragedy with nonsense and inflame a combustible situation with carelessness

Because journalism is muchly about clickbait these days, there has been some unserious reporting around the serious issue of the civilian casualties caused by Israel’s operation to uproot the Hamas militia from power in Gaza.

The Guardian’s nonsensical and baseless claim that the proportion of Gaza civilian casualties was higher than the average in all t…