Gaza analysis: 64,000 deaths due to violence between October 2023 and June 2024

[AloeVera]

1. Of course deaths have been underreported.

The significant underreporting of traumatic injury deaths highlights the deterioration of Gaza's health care infrastructure and consequent inability to count the dead amidst ongoing violence. Based on the estimated underreporting rate, the total traumatic injury death toll as of October 2024 is thought to exceed 70,000 Palestinians.

59% women and children FFS.

There is also this:

The total death toll due to the war is likely to be higher as the analysis does not account for non-trauma-related deaths caused by disruption to health care, food insecurity, inadequate water and sanitation, and disease outbreaks.

Those types of indirect deaths are 2-3 times higher than direct deaths in most conflicts. With the conditions necessary to sustain life now totally destroyed in Gaza, I dread to think what the final toll will be.

As the authors state, immediate intervention is required. Otherwise we are looking at the worst of the worst-case scenarios that humanitarian agencies have been warning about for a year now.