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Nearly 100,000 Palestinians killed in Gaza amid Israeli war: Haaretz – Middle East Monitor

Nearly 100,000 Palestinians killed in Gaza amid Israeli war: Haaretz – Middle East Monitor

Nearly 100,000 Palestinians killed in Gaza amid Israeli war: Haaretz

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June 28, 2025 at 12:44 pm

A general view of the makeshift tents housing Palestinians and buildings destroyed in Israeli attacks as deprived of basic needs such as shelter, food and clean water, Palestinians struggle to survive in difficult living conditions in the Sheikh Ridvan neighborhood of Gaza City, Gaza on June 24, 2025. [Mahmoud İssa – Anadolu Agency]

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Nearly 100,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, representing about 4% of the territory’s population, the Israeli daily Haaretz said on Friday, Anadolu reports.

The death toll contradicts the number of fatalities given by Gaza’s Health Ministry, which stood at over 56,300 since October 2023.

Haaretz said in addition to the high Palestinian deaths from Israeli attacks, many people also died from the indirect effects of the war such as hunger, cold and diseases amid a collapse of the health system in Gaza.

The daily said while Israeli spokespersons, journalists and influencers reject with knee-jerk disgust the death toll announced by Gaza’s Health Ministry as exaggerated, more and more international experts “are stating that not only is this list, with all the horror it embodies, reliable – but that it may even be very conservative in relation to reality.”

It cited a study conducted by Professor Michael Spagat, an economist at Holloway College at the University of London, a world-class expert on mortality in violent conflicts, about deaths in Gaza.

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The study surveyed 2,000 households in the Palestinian enclave, comprising almost 10,000 people.

“They concluded that, as of January 2025, some 75,200 people died a violent death in Gaza during the war, the vast majority caused by Israeli munitions,” it said.

According to the survey’s data, 56% of those killed have been either children up to the age of 18, or women.

“That’s an exceptional figure when compared with almost every other conflict since World War II,” Haaretz said.

Spagat said the survey’s data position the Gaza war “as one of the bloodiest conflicts of the 21st century.”

“Even if the overall number of war victims in Syria, Ukraine and Sudan is higher in each case, Gaza is apparently in first place in terms of the ratio of combatants to noncombatants killed, as well as in terms of rate of death relative to population size.”

Data also show that the proportion of women and children killed via a violent death in Gaza is more than double the proportion in almost every other recent conflict, including Kosovo (20%), northern Ethiopia (9%), Syria (20%), and Sudan (23%).

“I think we’re probably at something like 4 percent of the population killed,” Spagat said. “I’m not sure that there’s another case in the 21st century that’s reached that high.”

The Israeli army has pursued a brutal offensive against Gaza since October 2023, despite international calls for a ceasefire.

Last November, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.

Israel also faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its war on the enclave.
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Kilgore 4 days ago

If one looks at the number who have gone missing in Gaza since October 2023, then the number of dead due to the ongoing genocide is probably much larger:

A newly released report on the Harvard Dataverse indicates that since October 2023, at least 377,000 people in Gaza have "disappeared" due to the ongoing genocide by Israeli forces—an estimated half of them children.

This figure suggests a death toll far higher than is being reported. Before the genocide, Gaza’s population was estimated at 2.227 million. Since then, it has dropped to around 1.85 million—an overall decrease of roughly 17 percent. (MintPress)

medium.Com/@m4xim1l1an/the-grim-arithmetic-idf-data-reveals-377-000-palestinians-unaccounted-for-59f747490e61

dataverse.harvard.Edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi%3A10.7910%2FDVN%2FQB75LB

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