Financial Times Claims Gaza Has the Highest Rate of Child Amputees. Where’s the Evidence?

Journalists can be relied upon to treat a dubious claim as gospel provided the claim accords with their biases, is salacious (and therefore worth repeating), and has been advanced by institutions and individuals they consider like-minded and respectable.

In this way, a baseless claim can be laundered into a statement of fact that all respectable people agree upon.