from breakfastmtn@piefed.ca to world@lemmy.world on 19 Feb 07:24
https://piefed.ca/c/world/p/535823/gaza-death-toll-in-early-part-of-war-far-higher-than-reported-says-lancet-study
Research suggests more than 75,000 killed in the first 16 months of conflict, 25,000 more than announced at the time
More than 75,000 people were killed in the first 16 months of the two-year war in Gaza, at least 25,000 more than the death toll announced by local authorities at the time, according to a study published on Wednesday in the Lancet medical journal.
The research also found that reporting by the Gaza health ministry about the proportion of women, children and elderly people among those killed was accurate.
A total of 42,200 women, children and elderly people died between 7 October 2023, when Hamas launched a surprise attack into Israel that prompted a devastating Israeli offensive into Gaza, and 5 January 2025, the study found. These deaths comprised 56% of violent deaths in Gaza.
“The combined evidence suggests that, as of 5 January 2025, 3-4% of the population of the Gaza Strip had been killed violently and there have been a substantial number of non-violent deaths caused indirectly by the conflict,” the authors of the study, a team including an economist, demographer, epidemiologist and survey specialists, wrote in the Lancet Global Health.
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Early part of genocide
“we didn’t know it was that bad” - dumbasses and people who clearly knew but don’t care about Muslim lives.
As if there was ever any doubt. They are only counting bodies they find, they can’t find everyone under all the rubble, even if the israelis weren’t targeting emergency personnel, and bullying everyone about the figures, denying even the death toll of the actual bodies they found, calling them the hamas health department and the like. Biden of course endorsed this denial of verifiable fact, just as he endorsed veritable blood libel claiming to have seen the evidence of 40 beheaded babies in the ghetto uprising, and never corrected himself.
They get worse every cycle respective of their party. You know they will get worse, and you know they will be worse than you think they will be worse, and they will be worse than that still.
"You North Americans are very lucky. You are fighting the most important fight of all. You get to vote for the Democrats."
That does not make any sense to me. It sounds like he is saying that the Democrats are good.
I added the part about voting for the Democrats, as a joke. He said “you are in the belly of the beast”.
you don’t say!
Why do you think they were murdering so many journalists?
i mean. didn’t they just stop counting at 60k or what was the number that did not change for like 8 months?