- The number is a lot higher than 100,000. The Lancet estimated 186,000 as a conservative lower bound almost exactly a year ago.
- The Health Ministry never said the number was 45,660. They said the number of specifically named and identified people they could count up and prove were dead was 45,660. Implicit in that was that the true number was much, much higher, but of course the worldwide press will misconstrue everything they have to say, so they had to limit it to deaths that were absolutely ironclad and provable (not that it stopped people from claiming they were lying.)
- A lot of people have died since January 2025. That was before the starvation really set in.
- Counting up the people who directly died by violence is going to miss a ton of dead people.
- It's not a "war." As this whole analysis should make clear to anyone who's looking at it honestly. Calling it a "war," framing things in terms of "how many women and children have been killed in this war, which is inappropriate conduct in the course of fighting a war, they shouldn't be doing that while they fight their war" is absolutely and completely missing the point of what is happening.
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That would make it 4.7% of their population murdered by Israel.
Only a million and some change to go apparently
That would seem like a low number if you add all the headlines up