This is something!
The proof it brings comes from here:
Yaakov Garb’s report for Harvard Dataverse has analysed the Israeli military’s own data and combined these with careful spatial mapping to reveal a demographic horror story: almost 400,000 people – at least 377,000 – have disappeared from Gaza’s pre-genocide population of 2.227 million, reducing it to 1.85 million when measured for the study.Does that report say what the authors are so breathlessly claiming?
Not at all.
The report discusses the GHF attempt to feed Gazans. it doesn't mention demographics or deaths or missing people or anything like that at all.
But it has a map that shows what it says are Israel's estimates of how many Gazans are in three concentrated areas of Gaza:
Where to begin with this stupidity?
First of all, the three areas don't represent all of Gaza's population. Plenty of people refuse to move to the areas Israel wants them to move to - there are lots of articles in Arab media about their "steadfastness" in refusing to move. Assuming that the estimates here are accurate, they are only of the people inside the areas, not all of Gaza. We have no idea how many tens of thousands of Gazans live outside those three areas.
Secondly, the estimate of a pre-war Gaza population of 2.27 million is a bit suspect. According to CIA Factbook, the estimated population in Gaza in 2023 was less than 2.1 million. Poof! There go 127,000 dead people.
Thirdly, in the months before the Rafah crossing was closed, according to Palestinian estimates, some 100,000 Gazans managed to escape to Egypt (by paying exorbitant fees.) There go another 100,000 supposed victims.
I just resurrected over 110,000 children. No need to thank me.
This is the dumbest reporting I have ever seen in Western media, and that is saying something. But when you hate Jews (I'm sorry, ,"Zionists,") an excuse to exaggerate their evil is a righteous cause.
Where are all of these dead bodies, according to the geniuses of Sqwawkbox?
The Gaza health ministry only counts bodies recovered and brought to a hospital. Victims buried under rubble or blown apart with their few remains gathered into plastic bags are not included.
Except that - they are. The Gaza health ministry puts out an online survey where Gazans can register their missing and presumed dead relatives, and it counts them in its total.
Maybe Sqwawkbox believes that Israel uses ray guns that vaporize thousands of Gazans, leaving no trace? Because that is what officials from Hamas and from Gaza's much heralded Health Ministry - lovingly quoted by mainstream media - have claimed.
They'll believe anything that can be twisted to demonize Israel. Because that is what "trustworthy" journalists apparently do.
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