The essay in The Lancet explaining that if fighting stopped today, a conservative estimate would put the death toll in Gaza as likely exceeding 186,000 people, or close to 8% of the entire population of Gaza. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
By June 19, 2024, 37 396 people had been killed in the Gaza Strip since the attack by Hamas and the Israeli invasion in October, 2023, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, as reported by the UN Offi...
It’s a letter, not an essay. It isn’t peer reviewed. And the authors literally guessed the death toll.
The stats are grim.
Here is a careful critique of the essay/letter by Michael Spagat in AOAV: aoav.org.uk/2024/a-criti...
Professor Mike Spagat critiques the mortality estimates in Gaza, arguing that the projection of 186,000 total deaths based on indirect-to-direct death ratios is speculative and lacks a solid foundatio...