Source: The American Prospect
by Harold Meyerson
“Well, at least the cease-fire came while there are some structures still standing in Gaza. As for the war itself, the official death toll of Palestinians killed in the war—not counting those who starved or froze or otherwise died due to Israel’s 15-month war to destroy Gaza but not from military action per se—now comes to just over 46,000. Coincidentally, a report that appeared last week in The Lancet by some British epidemiologists concluded that the Palestinian authorities’ official death tally through last June undercounted Palestinian war-caused deaths by 41 percent. If the undercount has remained at that level, that means the actual death toll is more like 65,000. The Lancet also calculated that 59 percent of the deaths have been those of women, children, and the elderly.” (01/16/25)
https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/2025-01-16-all-too-late-cease-fire-gaza-israel/