cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/5365291

A study published via the Harvard Dataverse reveals that Israel has “disappeared” at least 377,000 Palestinians since the start of its genocidal campaign against the Gaza Strip in 2023.

Half of this number is believed to be Palestinian children.

The report was written by Israeli professor Yaakov Garb, who used data-driven analysis and spatial mapping to show how the Israeli army’s siege of Gaza and indiscriminate attacks on civilians in the enclave have led to a serious drop in its population.

The 377,000 Palestinians who are unaccounted for due to Israel’s genocide are approximately 17 percent of the Gaza Strip’s entire population, which now stands at about 1.85 million. Prior to the war in Gaza, the strip’s population was estimated at 2.227 million.

While some are displaced or missing, a significant number are believed to have been killed by Israeli forces, according to the report.

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    8 days ago

    Hamas is really doing Palestinians a massive disservice by only reporting blunt trauma deaths (directly from shot wounds).

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      7 days ago

      They tried to keep it as reliable as possible because they knew they will be scrutinized for every single death reported that was not backed up with some data. Of course, the aggressor could care less if the deaths are by a bullet, a bomb or any of the myriad causes of death in a scenario like this… So they focus on committing the nearly impossible to document deaths from diseases, societal breakdown, famine, etc. But you know who knows accurately how many people had died? The one that is daily calculating the bare minimum of calories to keep famine at the edge… just to have it a little bit unleashed, just a bit.

      The brainstorming and calculations that must be taken in secretive rooms by a handful on how to inflict and endure physical and psychological terminal damage without creating too much blatant piles of visible deaths for cameras must be out of this world! However, they are probably the most surprised of all on how much that could get away with and wonder if now, in a hot summer, they can add massive dehydration to the list of causes of deaths, after all, dehydrated bodies will sure won’t be so reminiscent to the ones seen in concentration camps in the 1940s. I am ashamed of virtually all the institutions we have built across the globe that keeps silent, when not complicit… or even instigators to this!