• @[email protected]
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    156 hours ago

    I Germany, I hear this often, but it’s also often mentioned that the death numbers reported by them were usually reliable.

    • @[email protected]
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      226 hours ago

      The 40,000 killed statistic is reliable in that the killed persons name, identity number etc are reported to MoH officials and recorded by them, and the dead are seen by the officials. However the figure is a small subset of the actual number dead. 200,000 to 300,000 dead in Gaza in the past year is a conservative estimate.

      • Andy
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        43 hours ago

        Yeah, which I think is a real weakness in the reporting.

        40k dead is bad, but it’s a rounding error of the total population.

        A tenth of the total population dead, a fifth or a quarter of the population subjected to severe permanent disabilities, and nearly the entire population displaced, homeless, and presently starving to death is a clear genocide. They really are trying to exterminate them. It strains my ability to comprehend. In any case, “40,000” does not begin to capture the current scale of what has become a pretty standard, unambiguous genocide.