Israeli study: The IDF has killed 377,000 Palestinians in the past 20 months, half of them children

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A study published via the Harvard Dataverse reveals that Israel has “disappeared” at least 377,000 Palestinians since the start of its genocidal campaign against the Gaza Strip in 2023.

Half of this number is believed to be Palestinian children.

The report was written by Israeli professor Yaakov Garb, who used data-driven analysis and spatial mapping to show how the Israeli army’s siege of Gaza and indiscriminate attacks on civilians in the enclave have led to a serious drop in its population.

The 377,000 Palestinians who are unaccounted for due to Israel’s genocide are approximately 17 percent of the Gaza Strip’s entire population, which now stands at about 1.85 million. Prior to the war in Gaza, the strip’s population was estimated at 2.227 million.

The professor notes that the official death toll of 61,000 is clearly an underestimate, as victims who remain trapped under rubble are not included.

Garb also condemned in the report the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) – a controversial US-Israeli aid distribution mechanism launched last month.

“These aid compounds seem to reflect a logic of control, not assistance, and it would be a misnomer to call them 'humanitarian aid distribution hubs'. They do not adhere to humanitarian principles, and much of their design and operation is guided by other objectives, which undermine their declared purpose,” he said.

The UN has accused GHF of being designed to further the forced displacement. Since it began operations, GHF has led to the deaths of hundreds of Palestinian aid seekers by Israeli forces.

The Harvard-linked report is not the first indication that the death toll in Gaza could, in fact, be significantly higher than reported.

The Lancet medical journal released a study in January this year revealing that the death toll from Israel’s genocide in Gaza was most likely undercounted by 41 percent in the first nine months of the war.

The January study highlighted that around 59.1 percent of those killed were women, children, and elderly.

The year before, in July 2024, The Lancet said Israel's assault on Gaza could lead to between 149,000 and 598,000 deaths.

Harvard-linked study finds Israel ‘disappeared’ nearly 400,000 Palestinians in Gaza, half of them children: Report

The study by a Ben Gurion University professor uses data-driven analysis and spatial mapping to highlight a severe decline in Gaza’s population since October 2023

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[Pirius Black]

Goddamn! If this is accurate, this has absolutely turned into an attempted genocide.

 

[noob_saibot]

Not surprised, anyone paying attention could tell the 40-50k numbers they were working with made no sense when they've been committing massacres almost daily for over a year. We won't know the real horrors of this until long after it's done. Sickening

 

[3rdWorld]

They're trying to even the score and reach that 6 million jackpot.

 

[MVike28]

Goddamn! If this is accurate, this has absolutely turned into an attempted genocide.

Attempted?

Try documented and proven

 

[Fillerguy]

That Israeli professor, Yaakov Garb, is an antisemite and Harvard is antisemitic for even hosting that study.

 

[Robbie3000]

What’s going on in Gaza is just depressing. How the world is ignoring it is infuriating.

Some real devilish shyt.

I suppose decades from now the mainstream America will present the truth and talk about how shameful it was that we allowed this to happen.

 

[Camammal]

Goddamn! If this is accurate, this has absolutely turned into an attempted genocide.

Wym? It’s a genocide currently

 

[Arizax2]

Not surprised, anyone paying attention could tell the 40-50k numbers they were working with made no sense when they've been committing massacres almost daily for over a year. We won't know the real horrors of this until long after it's done. Sickening

I felt like we were sitting on 30k death for a long ass time and no way that was going to be accurate. 377k sounds unbelievable but if true history is going to look terrible on us supporting this madness and how we veto every UN resolution so Isreal and continue this caos.

 

[Micky Mikey]

It's devastating. I heard many of the kids who've been killed have been around the ages of 4 and 6. Because they're too old to be carried by their parents and not fast enough to run during the bombings. Imagine the level of sickness it takes to deliberately drop 2000 lbs bombs on babies and toddlers. And level of sickness it takes to celebrate this as we've seen with so many Israeli's and politicians in our country.

Rest assured if blonde headed and blue eyed children were getting obliterated every day there would be a far different tone.

 

[Seoul Gleou]

At least 100 people are killed per week since Israel broke the last ceasefire. That 50k number is severely below the actual dead. And our governments are supporting this, playing in our faces

 

[Consigliere]

Add on all the children who had an arm, leg, finger or eye blown off. There’s an entire generation Palestinian children growing up with a lifetime of pain nothing to lose.

 

[BobbyWojak]

for weeks, israel's been using the promise of aid to lure starving civilians to concentration camps staffed by american mercenaries, then committing mass executions daily

Just when I was about to take this post seriously

 

[Seoul Gleou]

Just when I was about to take this post seriously

Literally all it takes is a search and having eyes to see.

 

[Pirius Black]

Wym? It’s a genocide currently

I have had to re-evaluate my sources of information regarding deaths in Gaza. So yea, it's a genocide as opposed to ethnic cleansing