“Deaths from bombs and other traumatic injuries during the first nine months of the war in Gaza may have been underestimated by more than 40 percent, according to a new analysis published in The Lancet.”
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out of the Israeli-telling machine is & always has been LIES.
All MSM is infected by the Israeli disease.!
Israeli Zionism = Racism = Gaza
Israeli racism is even more extreme than was German Nazism.
Main difference seems 2 B that the MSM covers for the EVIL
Isrl is not Judaism
This is not a credible ‘study.’ Not even Hamas claims casualties this high & they are known to obfuscate. The authors added unverified Hamas claims to an unreliable online survey & info from social media posts. The Lancet has also published vaccine and COVID misinformation, so sloppy work isn’t new.
The methodology used is not bad. What all scientific studies repeatedly conclude is that this "unverified claims", the Ministry of Health figures, should be taken as a minimum. It is normal that there is underestimation. This study quantifies this. It does not even take into account indirect deaths.
The study uses capture-recapture methodology to pull info from various, incomplete data sources to give a more complete picture than any one of them. It's not bad methodology, and has been applied to other conflicts like the war in Kosovo, conflict in Colombia, and the Peruvian armed conflict.
When faulty data is plugged into an otherwise acceptable methodology, the end result will be flawed. Most of the data is from a ministry under Hamas control & researchers acknowledged the data they plugged in could be overestimated because ‘hospital lists did not always provide the cause of death.’
Estimating casualties in an ongoing region of war is difficult, but the methodology here is time tested and has been shown to find hidden casualties not in official lists. Dismissing it with a handwave speaks to your bias more than the actual research.
How did this conflict so completely recede from the public conversation since the election? I feel like some of those lamenting the loss of life in Gaza leading up to 11/4 may have had unscrupulous motives.
The whole situations sucks. We should all grieve for all the innocent lives and for the hostages who had nothing to do with any of this. "There but for the Grace of God go I" Most of the victims of this never ending conflict are innocent people just trying to live a life and raise a family and live.
It really seems that the State of Israel is committing crimes on a scale rarely seen before and far beyond anything Hamas has ever committed in the past.
HISTORY LESSON ON WINNING WARS!
America hasn't won a war in my lifetime.
Rules of War-
1- Win
2- Occupy
Middle East Arabs fail to acknowledge Palestinians as people. Egypt even has a bigger wall than Israel keeping the Arab Nazis of Gaza out!War over when terrorists and Iran Mulahs are Killed!
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out of the Israeli-telling machine is & always has been LIES.
All MSM is infected by the Israeli disease.!
Israeli Zionism = Racism = Gaza
Israeli racism is even more extreme than was German Nazism.
Main difference seems 2 B that the MSM covers for the EVIL
Isrl is not Judaism
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michael-Spagat/publication/300183549_MSE_and_Casualty_Counts/links/5bfd1acba6fdcc76e722f0f1/MSE-and-Casualty-Counts.pdf
About Fucking Time!
Just need to survive a few more days of BIden!
America hasn't won a war in my lifetime.
Rules of War-
1- Win
2- Occupy
Middle East Arabs fail to acknowledge Palestinians as people. Egypt even has a bigger wall than Israel keeping the Arab Nazis of Gaza out!War over when terrorists and Iran Mulahs are Killed!