Stuart Casey Maslen, head of the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, said that as of October 2023, Gaza’s population had declined by more than 10%, which would suggest roughly 200,000 deaths.
Nightmares in Gaza, West Bank continue; Ehud Barak’s racist chat with Jeffrey Epstein; Israeli settler violence; Human Rights Watch turns against Palestinian right of return?; more.
Will Rafah crossing open to empty Gaza?; headlines on Iran; UNRWA without protections; settlers act as “vigilante militias” in West Bank; apartheid in the open; more arms to Israel with less Congressional oversight; the US occupation of Gaza
“Every day we are collecting bones”; “from the river to the sea”; Israeli forces kill West Bank Palestinian; cost of war – to Americans; Gaza’s death toll; more.
The death toll in Gaza remains unknown, and statistics have become a contested tool to understand the scale of the genocide. But even if we had an accurate number of deaths, we still wouldn’t understand the depth of its meaning.
For the sake of the Palestinians who have thus far perished in the latest aggression—and indeed for all those killed since the Nakba—we must tell the full, heartbreaking extent of their suffering.
American lawyer and political activist Ralph Nader states that the genocide is being committed by Israel and funded by US taxpayers’ money is exponentially worse than we think.
Israel kills at least 78 across Gaza, 5 in West Bank; US will pay $1M a day toward shady “aid” services; new Gaza death estimates much higher than before; Iran damage; War Powers Resolution; more.
Gaza population losing hope; over 5,000 settler violations in West Bank in 10 years; Trump admin distort truth about Hamas, hint at ethnic cleansing; Columbia University’s capitulation
Israel’s assault on Gaza has been the first genocide live-streamed for the world to see. What more pressing task could journalists have than to accurately report on a genocide? Yet Western media often unnecessarily cast doubt on Gaza’s death toll.