The Lancet study reveals Gaza death toll 41% higher than official count

A scientific study, published today in the online digital edition of the British medical journal The Lancet, estimates that the number of deaths in the Gaza Strip during the first nine months of the war between the Israeli armed forces and Hamas was 41 % higher than the figures recorded by the Ministry of Health in the Palestinian enclave for the same period. Casualty Estimates The war’s death toll has become the subject of bitter debate since Israel launched a wide-scale military operation against Hamas in retaliation for the Palestinian Islamist movement’s military wing’s unprecedented incursion into southern sectors of Israeli territory. , on October 7, 2023. From the outbreak of the war to On June 30, 2024, the Health Ministry of the Hamas government in the Gaza Strip spoke of a death toll of 37,877. However, the Lancet study estimates that deaths during this period ranged from […]
Source: News Beast

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