• Andy@slrpnk.net
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    22 hours ago

    Someone correct me if I’m mistaken, but aren’t these a massive undercount because they’re only counting combat casualties and omitting the starvation and excess mortality of complete civil collapse?

    According to the Lancet, indirect deaths are typically 3 - 15 times direct deaths. So a conservative estimate is that the actual death toll is around 200k, or ~10% of the prewar population.

    It should be noted that northern Gaza is in a deliberate famine during winter. Words just fail me.

    https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)01169-3/fulltext

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      20 hours ago

      Yes, basically the scoreboard for civilians murdered by Israel vs Hamas started to make even the zionists feel awkward about the blatant horror apparent from the quantification of the Palestian genocide so they complained to daddy and the US walked over, gave a murderous look to journalists and unplugged the scoreboard.

      This was months and months ago and frankly it is disgusting when news outlets cite that number without that tragic context of “ignorance is bliss”.