cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/24106301

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.

  • DurbanPoison@feddit.nlEnglish
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    2 hours ago

    I’ve seen more dead people on my screen in the last year than I saw in my prior ~15 years on the internet combined

    so many children

    I was never overly sensitive to gore, but after a year of footage from Gaza, I have to immediately close whatever app/browser I was using if I stumble across another Palestinian kid screaming for their dead parents.

    Have so few in the IDF had a “are we the baddies” moment?