Biden is not fighting the war, Putin does. 35,000 number comes from Hamas and have 0 credibility. But yes human toll is big unfortunately.
Oh Biden is not fighting the war???
What sort of cop out is this, typical American denial and weasle words?
When Netanyahu declared war, Biden has been the most enthusiastic president ever to rush in support and wholeheartedly ship billions of dollars of weapons to Israel post-haste, overkill weapons too by the way. Biden is 100% complicit in fueling the war - 100%!
Oh and more American denial weasle words, 35,000 not credible...?
The Science Is Clear. Over 30,000 People Have Died in Gaza
By
Les Roberts March 15, 2024 1:36 PM EDT
https://time.com/6909636/gaza-death-toll/
Les Roberts is an Epidemiologist and Professor Emeritus at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. He has taken part in the field measurement of mortality in crises including: Rwanda 1994, more than 30 health Zones in the Democratic Repoublic of Congo 1999-2002, Iraq 2004, Zimbabwe 2007, the Central African Repbulic 2009, 2018, and 2022, and Sierra Leone 2000 and 2014.
The first shock was the number of people killed in Israel—1,200 in a day, Oct. 7. But in the months since, the world has been taken aback by the number of deaths reported out of Gaza: 30,000 through the end of February. Because the death count is compiled by the local Ministry of Health (MOH), an agency controlled by Hamas, which governs Gaza, the tally has been subject to skepticism. Israel’s U.N.
ambassador and online pundits have purported that the numbers are exaggerated or, as a recent article in Tablet
alleged, simply faked.
Actually, the numbers are likely conservative. The science is extremely clear.
In December, the medical journal
The Lancet, published two critiques of the death surveillance process done by extremely experienced scholars at
Johns Hopkins and
The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Both concluded that the Gazan numbers were plausible and credible, albeit by somewhat different techniques and logic.
The
Hopkins’ analysis looked at internal aspects of the data like comparing hospital trend reports to the overall numbers, but also compared the death rates among U.N. employees with the overall MOH reports in terms of trends and mechanisms of death. There are a huge number of U.N. employees in Gaza, and very close correlations between the rates of death of U.N. employees and the overall population, and regarding the fraction dying under bombs in their homes.
The London School’s
analysis looked at some of the same issues, found near perfect correlation between Government bombing reports and satellite imagery, but focused on 7,000 deaths reported through health facilities and morgues during last October. In Gaza, there is a resident ID system which involves a number assigned to young children, and the assigned numbers have risen sequentially over more than half a century with a couple of exceptions. At two different times 20 years apart, there have been “catch-up” campaigns where people of any age who had been missed or had migrated to Gaza could get an ID number. The data analyzed by the London group came directly from many health facilities and morgues, and constituted most of the summary numbers later released by the MOH. In the data, when people’s ID numbers were plotted against the decedent’s age, there were two broad bands of age associated exactly with the ID numbers that had been given out in those catch-up campaigns. Given that this data was flowing from many different medical and morgue facilities, the authors concluded that it is very unlikely that there could be meaningful data fabrication.