Monday, October 21, 2024
Elder of ZiyonPalestinian Fatalities in Gaza 41,615Palestinians Missing/Estimated Dead Under the Rubble 10,000Estimated Deaths from Starvation: 62,413Estimated Deaths from Lack of Access to Care for Chronic Diseases: 5,000Estimated Deaths from Infectious Diseases, Maternal/Neonatal Deaths, and Others: ?
We've looked at the bogus "10,000 under rubble" statistic before. But where do they get the 62,413 estimated to have died of starvation?
Following the links, it comes from a "Costs of War" article, which took it from a letter to Joe Biden by Gaza physicians, which included it in an appendix.
Here's what the appendix said:
The fact that Palestinians in Gaza are so hungry that many have died, or that this is theresult of deliberate Israeli policy, is not in dispute. However, the scale of this starvation isnot widely appreciated.The IPC released reports on Gaza in January, March, and July 2024. Death from starvation of course takes time, and it is not clear how many people in Gaza have died from starvation and its complications or how many will die in the future. Still, according to the IPC technical manual: in the catastrophe phase of food insecurity the crude death rate rises to at least 2 deaths per 10,000 people per day, and in the emergency phase the crude death rate rises to 1-2 deaths per 10,000 people per day. The IPC data is summarized in the table below:
In total it is likely that 62,413 people have died of starvation and its compilations in Gaza from October 7, 2023 to September 30, 2024. Most of these will have been young children.
So they are estimating the number of people starved based on IPC projections which were never true, which were in turn based on faulty data!
Hamas, which has every incentive to exaggerate the number of people who starved to death, still claims only 37 deaths from starvation since October 7. That is a far cry from 62,413.
No one seems to be asking where, exactly, these 62,000 people are buried, or how many are children, or where the photos of thousands of starving children with distended stomachs are like we see in real famines, or why Al Jazeera isn't creating lists of thousands of dead, starved children since they have full access to Gaza hospitals.
No, the methodology of these "professionals" is to find any source claiming high fatalities, no matter how absurd, and make it look official by reproducing it in a respected venue from where it can be in turn republished and laundered as if it came from a more reliable source than the original just making up numbers out of thin air. (Yes, the article also quoted the debunked Lancet letter claiming 186,000 deaths in Gaza inJuly.)
And let me be perfectly clear: The supposed medical professionals who claim the 62,000 number literally just made it up based on a probably purposeful misunderstanding of how the IPC classification system works.
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