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I wish that the lancet was an unfamiliar name. I don’t want to believe these numbers (because they’re barbaric), but I think they’re probably true, but the journal’s name is irrevocably soiled since publishing Andrew Wakefield, perhaps the most damaging study any journal has published.

From an editor of the Israel Journal of Health Policy Research: Indirect deaths (starvation, disease, etc) claim 3–15x the lives as direct conflict. A conservative 4x estimate = 186,000 Gazans — about a tenth of the population — dead. Killed by Israel and the US. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Counting the dead in Gaza: difficult but essentialwww.thelancet.com 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 Offi...