An independent study by researchers from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) suggests the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza underreported the death toll due to violence by approximately 41%.The LSHTM study estimated 64,260 traumatic injury deaths in Gaza between 7...
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And I know too many here would celebrate this, but the reality of the death's is just... insane.
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Findings
We estimated 64 260 deaths (95% CI 55 298–78 525) due to traumatic injury during the study period, suggesting the Palestinian MoH under-reported mortality by 41%. The annualised crude death rate was 39·3 per 1000 people (95% CI 35·7–49·4), representing a rate ratio of 14·0 (95% CI 12·8–17·6) compared with all-cause mortality in 2022, even when ignoring non-injury excess mortality. Women, children (aged <18 years), and older people (aged ≥65 years) accounted for 16 699 (59·1%) of the 28 257 deaths for which age and sex data were available.
The estimated annualised mortality from traumatic injury of 39·3 per 1000 people is exceptionally high, surpassing rates seen during earlier conflicts in the Gaza Strip.
8,29 Although daily traumatic injury mortality decreased since December, 2023, both the scale and age–sex patterns of traumatic injury deaths raise grave concerns about the conduct of the military operation in Gaza despite Israel stating that it is acting to minimise civilian casualties. The majority of deaths (59·1%) occurred among women, children, and older people, groups considered particularly vulnerable in conflict-affected settings and less likely to be combatants. The age–sex pattern of mortality during violent conflicts might help investigate the motivations of combatants, albeit only within a much broader evidentiary context.
A lack of discrimination in killings by age and sex would manifest itself numerically as a relatively flat age–sex risk—eg, as described by the UN Inter-Agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation during the 1994 Rwandan genocide.30 Our estimates for deaths among women and girls broadly exhibit such a pattern. Among men and boys, we cautiously propose that two processes might be at work: a level of mostly non-discriminant killing across age and sex, with higher risk among young men explained by targeting of combatants (or those presumed to be) plus greater exposures to risk among this stratum—eg, because adult men are more often outdoors procuring supplies, working, or being first responders.
Our findings underestimate the full impact of the military operation in Gaza, as they do not account for non-trauma-related deaths resulting from health service disruption, food insecurity, and inadequate water and sanitation. A recent commentary suggests a potential excess all-cause death toll of 186 000,14 but it applied multiplication factors from other conflicts (Burundi, 1993–2003; Timor-Leste, 1974–99)14 to estimate indirect deaths in the Gaza Strip, which might be inappropriate due to obvious differences in the pre-war burden of disease (compared with Burundi and Timor-Leste, the Gaza Strip featured a high burden of non-communicable disease and a very low burden of undernutrition and infectious disease, although infections have become an increasing challenge since October, 2023).31 Projections we previously coauthored suggested that in an escalation scenario, Gaza would have experienced 2680 excess deaths from non-communicable diseases, 2720 from endemic infectious diseases, 11 460 from potential epidemics, and 330 from maternal and neonatal health complications during the period from February to August, 2024.
32 However, accurately measuring indirect mortality during an ongoing war is fraught with challenges and limitations. Although a ground survey could yield robust estimates, the highly unsafe conditions for humanitarian and health workers inside Gaza and access constraints currently make it unfeasible."
NO ONE can now claim Israel is doing this to "protect itself". Rather this IS the Genocide that numerous people have labeled it as.
And if you support it, then you're just as much a monster as Israel.
For the FINAL time, for idiots - this does NOT mean I support Hamas. Hamas and those who attacked Israel, DO deserve the deaths they did or will get.
But anyone, ANYONE with any sort of honest, logical intelligence cannot look at these facts and think that Hamas will be "stopped" by Israel, even if they kill the 'current' membership. Because if you flipped that script, and are honest about it, you cannot expect a people being massacred on this level NOT to raise their children to hate those who kill on this level.
You do NOT end violence like this with this kind of bullshit.
The first 9 minutes and 42 seconds cover this.
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