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.
Because they no longer exist, Every hospital has been bombed out of existence and doctors, surgeons and their families are targeted. My entire life of living in the west and believing their bullshit about becoming better, learning from their experience and “never again” Gaza has shown me if another world war happens, even if die immediate id rather be on the side opposing the west
Plus there is a lot of people who are “missing”, which does not get recorded centrally. Since a year an estimate of about 10.000 dead lying under the rubble is given. But the bombings have continued since then, so this “last” estimate is way outdated.