In a devastating letter sent to President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris this week, 99 health workers who have volunteered in Gaza amid the genocide wrote that Israel has likely already killed over 118,908 Palestinians in Gaza. This is approximately 5.4 percent of Gaza’s population, meaning Israel has killed 1 of every 20 Palestinians in the Strip in less than a year, according to this estimate.
Not only is this figure horrific, it is also the “most conservative estimate” possible of the true death toll in Gaza, the health workers wrote in an appendix to the letter. The workers calculated this based on estimates from food insecurity researchers on the death toll caused by famine; rough estimates of deaths by disease; and other estimates of deaths that Gaza health officials are unable to count.
The workers, who spent a combined 254 weeks in Gaza, specifically emphasize the impact that Israel’s genocide has had on children. For instance, they point out that, according to officially reported figures, Israel has killed at least 2,100 babies and toddlers since October 7 — a toll that is higher than the combined Israeli death toll from the First Intifada, the Second Intifada and October 7 attack.
Why is this number so drastically higher than other numbers I’ve seen? I thought it was in the 40 thousands?
(Not like that’s any better. Genocide is genocide. I’m just a bit perturbed by how different the number is then when I last heard.)
UPDATE: Further along in the linked document it clarified…
“In total it is likely that 62,413 people have died of starvation and its compilations in Gaza from October 7, 2023 to September 30, 2024. Most of these will have been young children.”
That figure is an addition to the 42,000 that have died from the violence.
Holy hell… 😭
Yeah the numbers from Gaza Health Ministry (part of of the Hamas government) have a pro-Israeli bias. Yup, that makes perfect sense. The Gaza Health Ministry is trying to cover up a genocide… for… ummmm… reasons.
Face it, the genocide the ghouls were hoping for just didn’t happen. Now the genocide ghouls are just making up numbers. At what point do people start to realize they were fooled by obvious propaganda?
The Gaza Health Ministry is crippled because Israel has bombed the vast majority of the hospitals
Are you saying that a genocide isn’t happening in Gaza right now? Are you saying that Palestinians wanted a genocide to happen to them? Wtf?
