Gaza death toll 40 percent higher than recorded, Lancet study estimates

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As cease-fire wobbles, new study finds Gaza death toll likely much higher than believed

A new report published in the U.K. medical journal The Lancet indicates that far from exaggerating the human suffering in Gaza, the ministry has likely underestimated the true number of the dead by as much as 41 percent.

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Estimated Gaza Toll May Have Missed 25,000 Deaths, Study Says

Deaths from bombs and other traumatic injuries during the first nine months of the war in Gaza may have been

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'Fake data': Famous medical journal slammed for suggesting Gaza death toll could be 40% higher than Hamas figures * WorldNetDaily * by David Brummer

The U.K.'s Lancet medical journal recently published a report in which it claims the number of traumatic deaths in Gaza between Oct. 7, 2023 and June 30, 2024 is actually closer to 64,000 than the semi-official account according to the Gaza Health Ministry, a.k.a. Hamas, which over that period stood at some 38,000.

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Biased Science: The Lancet Claims Gaza Casualty Count Underreported

The Lancet has a history of publishing agenda-driven and politicized anti-Israel content that goes way beyond the field of healthcare and medicine. In July 2024, the medical journal was called out for outrageously claiming that as many as 186,000 Gazans had been killed in the current war. Many media rushed to print dramatic headlines under the imprimatur of The Lancet — a significant error given that the casualty claims came not from a peer-revi…

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The investigation, of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, is 64,260 deaths of Gazans between October 7, 2023 and June 30, 2024, 26,383 more than the 37,877 recorded by the Palestinian authorities during that period.

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How many dead are there really in Gaza?

A new study published in the medical journal Lancet claims that the actual number of fatalities in Gaza during the first nine months of the war was 40 percent higher than the official figure.