United Nations chief slammed as Gaza death comparison fact-checked by social media: 'lost any moral standing'

The United Nations has stood by the Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry's reported deaths count, arguing that such reports have stood up to scrutiny in past conflicts.

The post received a community note, which allows users to provide additional context for "posts that might be misleading," pointing to at least two conflicts with significant death tolls either equal to or above the death toll in the Gaza Strip - the Syrian civil war and the Yemen War, which have seen hundreds of thousands killed.  Peter Aitken is a Fox News Digital reporter with a focus on national and global news. 

An Israeli official told Fox News Digital, "The Secretary-General has lost any moral standing. He willfully ignores the thousands of civilians killed in conflicts in Ukraine, Syria, Yemen, and elsewhere, as he pursues vilification of Israel. Shame on him."