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The mainstream media has no problem guesstimating the deaths (500,000)
from the Assad DictatorshipAs Civil War in Syria, nor the estimated
deaths in the wars in Ukraine, Sudan, or Iran.

Somehow, media editors do not let their investigative reporters assess
the extent of IsraelAs mass murder of civilians in Gazauan exposed,
defenseless population of 2.3 million people in an enclave the
geographic size of Pennsylvania. The Associated Press notes that U.S.
military historian Robert Pape believes, oGaza is one of the most
intense civilian punishment campaigns in historyo and that, oIt now
sits comfortably in the top quartile of the most devastating bombing
campaigns ever.o

Why? One reason is that the Hamas-controlled Ministry of Health
certifies deaths in Gaza based on reports from hospitals and morgues
that were mostly blown up well over a year ago. (They report presently
around 73,000 fatalities.) But Hamas has admitted that there are tens
of thousands of bodies under the rubble, thousands more blown into
bits or incinerated and unidentifiable. They also say their figures do
not include the collateral deaths (e.g., spreading fires) from the
Israeli military F-16 bombings and relentless shelling of the people
of Gaza or the deaths caused by the Israeli government-imposed
blocking of food, medicine, healthcare, water, fuel, electricity and
shelter. From other conflict zones around the world, the ratio of
collateral deaths is anywhere from 3 to 13 times the deaths by violent weaponry.

The Israeli regime is fine with the Hamas undercount because they and
the U.S. State Department know the real death toll (along with the
injury count) is much, much higher. Hamas knows that on October 7,
2023, the multi-layered Israeli border security apparatus was shaky.
They then launched what turned out to be a suicide-homicide assault
over the border, resulting in some 1400 deaths as compared with the
nearly 1200 peopleuabout 400 of them soldiers and policeushot by the
Hamas raiders. To this day, with most Israelis skeptical, Netanyahu
has blocked an independent official investigation of the mysterious
collapse of the multi-tiered Israeli border security complex.

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https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/gaza-genocide-death-toll-undercount


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