The peer-reviewed statistical analysis was conducted by academics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Yale University and other institutions.
An official Palestinian tally of direct deaths in the Israel-Hamas war likely undercounted the number of casualties by around 40 per cent in the first nine months of the war as the Gaza Strip’s healthcare infrastructure unravelled, according to a new study.journal was conducted by academics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Yale University and other institutions.
More than 46,000 people have been killed in the Gaza war, according to Palestinian health officials, from a pre-war population of around 2.3 million.Credit:A senior Israeli official, commenting on the study, said Israel’s armed forces went to great lengths to avoid civilian casualties.“These include providing advance warning to civilians to evacuate, safe zones and taking any and all measures to prevent harm to civilians.
For the Gaza study, researchers compared the official Palestinian Health Ministry death count, which in the first months of war was based entirely on bodies that arrived in hospitals but later came to include other methods; an online survey distributed by the Health Ministry to Palestinians inside and outside the Gaza Strip, who were asked to provide data on Palestinian ID numbers, names, age at death, sex, location of death, and reporting source; and obituaries posted on social media.
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