The number of confirmed Palestinians killed in the Israeli onslaught has surpassed 50,000. The number produced by the Gaza Health Ministry is considered a low count by international observers.
According to the numbers released by the Gaza Health Ministry on Sunday, 50,021 Palestinians have been killed and 113,274 wounded since October 7, 2023. Of the 50,000 dead, 14,500 are children.
The number of Palestinians killed by Israel has surged in the past week as Tel Aviv broke a ceasefire and hostage exchange, which saw less fighting in Gaza and the return of 30 Israeli hostages in recent weeks. The deal was slated to continue into phase 2, when the remainder of the captives would have been released by Hamas.
Since breaking the ceasefire last week, Israel has killed at least 670 Palestinians, including hundreds of children. Israeli forces are targeting Palestinian medical facilities. On Friday, Israel used explosives to flatten Gaza’s lone cancer treatment facility. On Sunday, Israel bombed the emergency unit of Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis, killing at least five.
The death toll reported by the Health Ministry is an official count of Palestinians killed and who had their remains brought to a hospital or morgue. The count does not include the 11,000 missing Gazans who are presumed to be dead and their bodies buried under the rubble.
Last summer, the British medical journal The Lancet published a study arguing the true death toll could exceed 186,000. “Applying a conservative estimate of four indirect deaths per one direct death to the 37,396 deaths reported, it is not implausible to estimate that up to 186,000 or even more deaths could be attributable to the current conflict in Gaza,” the authors explained.
A second study published in The Lancet earlier this year concluded that life expectancy in Gaza had nearly dropped by half, from 75.5 to just over 40, during the Israeli onslaught. In September, 99 American healthcare workers who volunteered in Gaza estimated the death toll to be at least 118,000.
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.
The realistic one is of hundreds of thousands. The Lancet I believe published months ago an estimate of at least 180,000, and even that is probably a quite conservative evaluation.
End the Genocide now!
It's outrageous. If "life expectancy in Gaza had nearly dropped by half, from 75.5 to just over 40," the 180,000 number doesn't make any sense!
I don’t know where you get the drop in life expectancy figure or how you correlate it with the figure of absolute deaths (estimate) but I feel that you’re not really understanding what “life expectancy” means. It means the average age of people who died (or are recorded to have died). Hence it will easily drop if the death toll has grown sharply (it has) and the age of those deceased is relatively young (it is). It’s surely based only on the recorded death toll of 50K.
“It’s surely based only on the recorded death toll of 50K.” Are you sure?
Think about it, which is the usual mortality rate (per year) of a city or county of 2.3 million people (Gaza’s pre-genocide population)? I estimated that 1.3%, what makes 30,000 per year, so 50,000 more than doubles the figure of “natural deaths” and most of those murdered by Israel were young (many were children), what must slash the average age of death, the life expectancy to c. 40 years.
So, yes, I’m pretty sure: the maths do work.
I agree the death toll is probably higher, but I think it means many of the kids and young adults alive now probably wont reach their 40th birthday, the way things are.
All children are God’s children… Who is Israel or the US to decide, otherwise?!….
Or Hamas?
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.
https://news.antiwar.com/2025/02/14/lancet-life-expectancy-in-gaza-halved-in-first-year-of-israeli-onslaught/
Ah, what better way of proving that Hamas uses "human shields"? You wait until they are sitting at the dinner table with their families. Now, how can anyone say the IDF isn't moral (/s)? And what would any other organization practicing this same tactic be called? Any guesses? It starts with a T.
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