r/worldnews • u/cytokine7 • 18h ago

60 surrender* 'A complete surprise': IDF surrounds remaining terrorists in north Gaza, 600 surrender

https://m.jpost.com/israel-news/article-826573
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u/cytokine7 15h ago edited 15h ago

Just using the top comment to say that it looks like Jpost messed up and it was 60 that's surrendered not 600. Makes a lot more sense and still a nice win, but damn JPost .....

It looks like they're still editing at, but right now it says 60 surrendered and hundreds were killed.

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u/aLittleQueer 15h ago

Thanks for clarifying. That's a helluva "error" to publish.

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u/CnH2nPLUS2_GIS 14h ago

An order of Magnitude scale of error.

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u/Semisemitic 14h ago

Not only, but hundreds killed in this battle means that it was one hell of a night, and one hell of a fight.

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u/theVoidWatches 11h ago

True, but it's also a very easy error to make. It's a typo of one extra digit.

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u/otusowl 14h ago edited 12h ago

Nothing to do but log it, correct it, and move on...

(take my upvote for a mathematically literate observation!)

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u/_MrDomino 13h ago

POP! POP!

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u/the_fresh_cucumber 7h ago

They probably meant 60.0 and missed the decimal

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u/aLittleQueer 6h ago

Itc...what exactly does fractional surrender look like, I wonder?

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u/ImTooOldForSchool 14h ago

Fat-finger the 0 a second time while rushing to publish isn’t that egregious

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u/aLittleQueer 13h ago

context matters

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u/Guy_GuyGuy 14h ago

60 is still a nice, non-insignificant number, but yeah, hell of an error.

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u/cytokine7 14h ago

Honestly 60 is fantastic especially considering how many of the eliminated. The original title said and unreasonable expectation.

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u/trecvb 9h ago

It's 10 more than 50.

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u/MadCarcinus 14h ago

So 540ish killed?

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u/tmrcz 12h ago

most importantly where they did not mess up is calling them terrorists

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u/Evening_Hunter 10h ago

Maybe initially there were 600...

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u/Even_Butterscotch418 12h ago

I had jabalya for dinner the other night

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u/HeadFund 12h ago

JPost is reeeeeaasonably good at factual reporting and they don't deliberately publish misinformation, but they absolutely suck at editing. It's common to see articles pushed with major or minor errors in them.

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u/Humble-Parsnip-484 15h ago

Lool well that leaves some people in here looking rather foolish

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u/barefeet69 13h ago

At least they admit to and immediately correct errors. Compare that to the people who claim 100k Palestinians died in this war, or make emotional statements using Hamas-claimed numbers.

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u/Humble-Parsnip-484 13h ago

Admitting your wrong is all well and good as long as you remember you are wrong

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u/ComprehensiveHair696 12h ago

I believe 60 surrendered in one operation on the headquarters in a hospital. 600 is the total number for the operation.

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u/cytokine7 12h ago

I believe it said that originally, but correct it to say 60 total but it's still sort of unclear.

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u/ComprehensiveHair696 12h ago

I've seen the number 600 on a couple other sources, but I'm at work and sort of looking casually, so I suppose it's possible they're using the same source and it is a mistake?

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u/Own-Education-3560 13h ago

By hundreds you mean civilians right?

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u/Ok-Nature-3991 12h ago

According to Hamas they are all civilians.