The number of people
killed in Gaza is significantly higher than the figure reported by authorities in the enclave, a peer-reviewed study by researchers from a leading health research university in the UK has found.
According to findings announced by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and published in The Lancet journal, there were an estimated 64,260 "traumatic injury deaths" in Gaza between October 7, 2023 and June 30, 2024. The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza put the figure at 37,877 at the time.
This means the ministry has underreported the death toll due to
violence by approximately 41%, the researchers found.
As of October, the number of Gazans killed by violence was thought to exceed 70,000, the study said, based on the estimated underreporting rate.
The total death toll attributable to Israel's military campaign
is likely to be higher still, it said, as
its analysis doesn't account for deaths caused by disruption to health care, insufficient food, clean water and sanitation, and disease outbreaks.
Comment: Yeah, with accounts of tens of people being killed
every day, if we could stop with the ~46,000 count (an appalling enough number)? Some estimates put the total at upwards of over 200,000. That would be 10% of Gaza's total population, more than half of which is comprised of women and children.
A
reddit post from October 2024
(see an enlargeable copy of the letter at the link):
Full text:
according to a recent letter from doctors who volunteered in Gaza, not only is everyone sick and/or injured, but the direct death toll is now over 92,000 at 3-15x more indirect than direct deaths, an updated conservative estimate (4x) of total deaths is 368,000 Palestinians.
Comment: The evidence points to the abuse being sanctioned and repeatedly covered up by British authorities. We at SOTT have brought up psychopaths in power over and over again. When psychopaths are in positions of power, they tend to promote and protect behaviors that match their own perverted predilections. This story is a case in point.