Researchers arrived at this estimate based on an analysis of mortuary records, online surveys and social media obituaries.
According to the study, the numbers produced by the Palestinian Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip are an accurate minimum estimate of the number of deaths, but are likely still underreported. Gaza authorities had tallied 37,877 deaths as of June 30 last year.
POLITICO called on the Israeli government to take action.
The figures come as a growing number of legal experts and NGOs accuse Israel of perpetrating genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called it “false and verbal.” “It’s a no-brainer,” he dismisses.
Human Rights Watch said last month that Israel intentionally cut off water from Palestinians, resulting in thousands of deaths from dehydration and disease.
Also last month, Amnesty International accused Israel of treating Palestinians as a “subhuman group” and said countries that supply weapons to Israel, including the United States and Germany, are failing in their obligations to prevent genocide. I warned you.
Israel has been conducting military attacks in the Gaza Strip since October 2023 in retaliation for violent attacks by Hamas militants in Israel that killed more than 1,100 Israelis. It paralyzed Hamas’s leadership, killed the militant group’s top commander and left widespread destruction across the coastal enclave.
In November, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on charges of complicity in crimes against humanity in Gaza.
