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Haaretz

   https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)01169-3/fulltext or https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)01169-3/fulltext ;
By June 19, 2024, 37 396 people had been killed in the Gaza Strip since the attack by Hamas and the Israeli invasion in October, 2023, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, as reported by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.1
 The Ministry's figures have been contested by the Israeli authorities, although they have been accepted as accurate by Israeli intelligence services,2
 the UN, and WHO. These data are supported by independent analyses, comparing changes in the number of deaths of UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) staff with those reported by the Ministry,3
 which found claims of data fabrication implausible.4
Collecting data is becoming increasingly difficult for the Gaza Health Ministry due to the destruction of much of the infrastructure.5
 The Ministry has had to augment its usual reporting, based on people dying in its hospitals or brought in dead, with information from reliable media sources and first responders. This change has inevitably degraded the detailed data recorded previously. Consequently, the Gaza Health Ministry now reports separately the number of unidentified bodies among the total death toll. As of May 10, 2024, 30% of the 35 091 deaths were unidentified.1
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Armed conflicts have indirect health implications beyond the direct harm from violence. Even if the conflict ends immediately, there will continue to be many indirect deaths in the coming months and years from causes such as reproductive, communicable, and non-communicable diseases. The total death toll is expected to be large given the intensity of this conflict; destroyed health-care infrastructure; severe shortages of food, water, and shelter; the population's inability to flee to safe places; and the loss of funding to UNRWA, one of the very few humanitarian organisations still active in the Gaza Strip.8
In recent conflicts, such indirect deaths range from three to 15 times the number of direct deaths. Applying a conservative estimate of four indirect deaths per one direct death9
 to the 37 396 deaths reported, it is not implausible to estimate that up to 186 000 or even more deaths could be attributable to the current conflict in Gaza. Using the 2022 Gaza Strip population estimate of 2 375 259, this would translate to 7·9% of the total population in the Gaza Strip. A report from Feb 7, 2024, at the time when the direct death toll was 28 000, estimated that without a ceasefire there would be between 58 260 deaths (without an epidemic or escalation) and 85 750 deaths (if both occurred) by Aug 6, 2024.10
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DJ; USrael can only murder on this level with western-NATO-support...

UKraine nazi's killing Russian civilians is NO problem for the west...UKraine nazi's may have murdered over 15,000 Russian civilians-in part via NATO weapons...

NATO is a genocide machine...

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/07/palestine-open-thread-2024-160.html or https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/07/palestine-open-thread-2024-160.html ;
Palestine Open Thread 2024-160
News & views related to the war in Palestine ...
Of interest:
IDF Ordered Hannibal Directive on October 7 to Prevent Hamas Taking Soldiers Captive (archived) - Haaretz
'There was crazy hysteria, and decisions started being made without verified information': Documents and testimonies obtained by Haaretz reveal the Hannibal operational order, which directs the use of force to prevent soldiers being taken into captivity, was employed at three army facilities infiltrated by Hamas, potentially endangering civilians as well
Communication networks could not keep up with the flow of information, as was the case for soldiers sending these reports. However, the message conveyed at 11:22 A.M. across the Gaza Division network was understood by everyone. "Not a single vehicle can return to Gaza" was the order.At this point, the IDF was not aware of the extent of kidnapping along the Gaza border, but it did know that many people were involved. Thus, it was entirely clear what that message meant, and what the fate of some of the kidnapped people would be.
... One case in which it is known that civilians were hit, a case that received wide coverage, took place in the house of Pessi Cohen at Kibbutz Be'eri. 14 hostages were held in the house as the IDF attacked it, with 13 of them killed.
I guestimate that at least half of the 1,200 Zionist casualties were killed by their own army.
Does 'Israel' want war? - Al Mayadeen
A time of imponderables has arrived. War never proceeds according to plan.
by Alastair Crooke

DJ...A lot of Israeli military want an end to the bloodbath...Ukraine military also see their country destroyed...still zelensky, netanyahu want to stay out of prison for corruption, war crimes...In the US biden seeks reelection...

The real pandemic has gone to the brains !