More than 40,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, territory’s Health Ministry sayshttps://t.co/eAlkTrUbBv pic.twitter.com/NwLBEMyD1I
— TIME (@TIME) August 15, 2024
The Gaza genocide slipped under the radar for a while there, what with the Biden senility issue, the Trump ear scrape, the Kamala Kong.
It seems to be back now. The protesters are hitting up Kamala rallies. Domestic politics are boring again.
Anyway, while it was out of the top news, the official death toll went to 40,000. That’s a full 2% of the population of Gaza.
Remember when Bibi said that because there population is smaller than the US, killing 1,200 Israelis was “20 9/11s”?
Doing proportional math on deaths like that is really bizarre and Jewish.
But just for the record: based on this proportionality math, killing 40,000 Gazans is like 2,000 9/11s.
That’s a 100 times the 9/11s.
(Even though it’s only 35 times the total dead, based on Jew math, it is 100 times worse. Because everything is measured in 9/11s.)
The real total death count is at least four times that, maybe five times or more.
Dalia Hawas was 24 years old when an Israeli airstrike flattened the apartment building where she lived in February, burying the young mother with her 10-month-old daughter, Mona. They are not listed among Gaza’s war dead, because their bodies were trapped too deep beneath the rubble for rescue teams to reach them.
Ten months into Israel’s war on Gaza, the death toll has passed 40,000, according to health authorities there. Most of the dead are civilians and the total represents nearly 2% of Gaza’s prewar population, or one in every 50 residents.
But even that figure does not tell the full story of Palestinian losses. “This number, 40,000, includes only bodies that were received and buried,” said Dr Marwan al-Hams, the director of field hospitals at the Palestinian ministry of health. “New procedures are being tested to include those who are missing or known to be under the rubble on the list of the dead, but they have not yet been approved.”
About 10,000 airstrike victims were thought to remain entombed in collapsed buildings, Hams said, because there was little heavy equipment or fuel to dig through steel and concrete ruins looking for them.
Another group of Palestinian war victims do not show up in the official count, which only registers those killed by bombs and bullets as war dead.
Over the past 10 months the war has brought mass displacement into crowded shelters and makeshift tents, hunger as aid shipments dwindled and chronic shortages of clean water and sanitation which spread diseases.
Hospitals have been bombed and besieged, their supplies of medicines, equipment and fuel cut off, their medical staff detained or killed, and their wards left overflowing.
“People who died due to indirect impacts of war, including diseases, starvation and the collapse of the healthcare system, are not included [in the war dead],” said Hams. “A committee will be formed to count these [victims], which will start work immediately after the end of the war.”
People under the rubble, all the people denied hospital treatment because Israel bombed every single hospital, however many have starved to deal…
It’s definitely a lot more than 40,000.
No one starved to death on October 7th. But Angel Face was gang-raped and decapitated with a shovel. And 40 babies were decapitated. So it’s really much worse. Ask Kid-Killer Kamala.
“The death toll in Gaza is 4 or 5 times higher than what we were told.” pic.twitter.com/lEiw1xve2z
— Sulaiman Ahmed (@ShaykhSulaiman) August 13, 2024
To be clear, if we go with 4 times 40,000, that adds up to 8,000 9/11s.