Ghazi Hamad, a senior Hamas official, gave the lie to his own words in an unintentionally hilarious interview on Nigerian TV.

The interviewer asked him if it’s true that Israelis return bodies missing organs. Instead of answering the question, he presented a detailed breakdown of the numbers of civilians killed during the Israel-Gaza conflict.

He said that the numbers of those killed break down as follows:

• 13,000 children
• 10,000 women
• 127 journalists
• 160 medical workers
• 35 people who worked in civil defense
• 112 U.N. employees

Then came the kicker. The interviewer asked him how many members of Hamas were killed. And he said it’s impossible to document that number during a war.

“But I don’t know what is the accurate number of Hamas fighters who were killed by the Israeli side, because it is not easy to be there,” he declared without a shred of irony or self-awareness. “You know that situation is an area of war. No one can count, can know, can make investigation.”

The Hamas number of civilians killed by Israel has been disputed due to several problems:

• It does not distinguish between civilians and combatants.
• It includes males younger than 18, classified as children, whom Hamas recruits as soldiers or scouts.
• It includes a significant percentage of natural deaths.
• It includes people killed by Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and other groups, whether through extrajudicial killings or rocket misfires.