A new study found that the average life expectancy in Gaza was nearly cut in half during the first year of Israeli military operations in Gaza. Tens of thousands of children have been killed in the bombing.
The paper, published by the prominent British medical journal, the Lancet, found, “life expectancy in the Gaza Strip decreased by 34·9 years during the first 12 months of the war, about half (–46·3%) the prewar level of 75·5 years.” It continues, “Life expectancy losses were larger for males (–38·0 years [–51·6%]) than for females, but nonetheless, females also suffered large losses (–29·9 years [–38·6%]).”
The authors say they only used data from those who were directly killed in the conflict and not indirect deaths. Often, indirect deaths exceed those directly killed in the war, and the authors predict the decrease in life expectancy is higher than what was shown in the analysis of the direct deaths data.
“Our approach to estimating life expectancy losses in this study is conservative as it ignores the indirect effect of the war on mortality.” It continues, “Even ignoring this indirect effect, results show that the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip generated a life expectancy loss of more than 30 years during the first 12 months of the war, nearly halving prewar levels. Actual losses are likely to be higher.”
That the life expectancy in Gaza has dropped significantly over the past year is unsurprising as the horrific tactics deployed by Israel have often targeted children. During the war, Israel used a program called “Where’s Daddy.” Under the program, Tel Aviv waited until suspected Hamas fighters were at their homes to bomb them, often killing entire families.
Additionally, American doctors who have worked in Gaza during the Israeli genocide have reported that Palestinian children are often targeted by Israeli snipers. A group of British doctors later issued a similar statement.
Kyle Anzalone is the opinion editor of Antiwar.com and news editor of the Libertarian Institute. He hosts The Kyle Anzalone Show and is co-host of Conflicts of Interest with Connor Freeman.
Yes,Hamas did many terrible things.
And then Israel made those "terrible things" look like a Boy Scout jamboree. And they made the "many" look minute in comparison. And they're still doing it.
Unfortunately, Israel had to go ruin it by embarking on a war of extinction that will not only cause the new generations to forget the Shoah, but to belittle it when reminded of it because of this stain that can not be washed away.
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Yet the word "genocide" is censored in many platforms. We live terrible times. 🙁
Correct. Not just "genocide", YouTube censors practically any comments mentioning Israel, Zionism, Middle East, unless they favor Israel.
Huckabee is out there saying what a wonderful job Trump and Netanyahu are doing in the "Holy Land" and that the "thugs and barbarians" have to be defeated.
YT Algorithm now shadow-censors (you don’t even know you have been censored, much less why) quite randomly. Sometimes it’s not just the Unholy Algo but toolkits that channels deploy to “better” censor (also shadow-censor anyhow) and that’s probably you can speak more freely in some (usually smaller) channels than in others. But in any case, it has become quite nightmarish: in 2022, most of 23 even, it was still a nice place to have a free chat, now, since the Gaza genocide began, it has become almost impossible. Yes, it is the Zio-censorship but also many other things nobody can even guess what they are.
Israel cannot win…! There are more than 70 million Palestinians live elsewhere besides gaza and west bank…! They'd move back to homeland…!
"There are more than 70 million Palestinians" Where the heck to get that number?
There are at least 15 million Palestinians in the world. HOWEVER,
BY THE MILLIONS, BY THE BILLIONS
WE ARE ALL PALESTINIANS
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Life Expectancy go down in a war. Wow that is new information. Did Life Expectancy go up in Europe, China and Japan in WW2? Did Life Expectancy go up in Korea during the Korean war? Did it increase in Vietnam during the Vietnam war?
Seriously, of course it went down. What a meaningless bit of information.
Hey Tim, you better get use to "this meaningless bit of information." All the more appalling when its a war of extinction targeting innocent men, women and children. When the dust settles on Israel's mass murder rampage, every study, every testimony, every video and every document will be used to indict Israel in courts and public opinion for decades to come.
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I won't look up how far the life expectancy dropped in those other wars you mention but I'd guess it wasn't halved. But it doesn't even matter. Nothing you say justifies how Israel has completely disregarded any attempt to keep civilians safe. To the contrary, they have gone out of their way to make civilians less safe by having rules of engagement that would prompt the US to designate them as terrorists if they were anyone else besides Israel.