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[-] Fandangalo@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago

A figure to consider: Palestinians killed by this regime, 75k. Thinking about about 40% of that crowd as dead people, it’s tragic.

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

That count is not Palestinians killed by Israel, it's Palestinians killed by Israel whose bodies were brought to a Hospital and officially identified (i.e. matched with their state issued ID number).

Israel blew up most of the Hospitals. They also targetted the emergency vehicles that amongst other things brought the victims to the Hospitals and stopped fuel from getting into Gaza so those vehicles still intact couldn't operate and similarly for the diggers that could be use to dig up people under destroyed buildings. Israel also has been blowing entire appartment buildings (often using the 2000lb bombs provided by America and known for their massive collateral damage) en masse, so many many corpses were never dug out from the rubble, especially by the point of the war when there were far more than just a few appartment buildings blown up (and all that takes is to check Google maps nowadays to so just how massive the percentage of blown up appartment buildings is by now).

So the real number is likely many times larger than those 75k, possibly by a factor of 10.

In fact an estimate of the deaths published in the Lancet Medical journal at around 1 year after the start of the war placed the number back then at around 200,000 (edit: as per the info provided by Garfunkel@lemmy.ca below it's 186,000 - see here).

[-] Garfunkel@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago

75k declared*** who knows how many corpses haven't been taken out of the rubbles yet and how many more died by starvation.

[-] Formfiller@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

That place is leveled and aid is being used as bait to shoot kids, no medical is available, humanitarians are banned, journalists are banned and the people left are being starved. There were 2million people before October 2023 I’d say at least 1 million are dead

[-] Garfunkel@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That's precisely the issue, France likewise still disputes the number of deaths from it's occupation of Vietnam and Algeria, recent figures estimate 1.4 million for vietnam, and 8 million dead for algeria. We'll probably know the figure in more than a decade for Palestine, if there are any palestinians left by then.

The only research document I know of that touches on it is this paper published in the The Lancet in 2024, it's peer reviewed and estimates 186 000, but that was 2 years ago:

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

this post was submitted on 08 Nov 2026
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