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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/5669661

updated as of yesterday (July 21): based on a statistical model developed by a prestigious medical journal called The Lancet, Israel has killed roughly 434,800 people in Gaza since the country’s military started to attack the territory on 8 October 2023. That’s 20.7% of Gaza’s entire pre-conflict population dead. Over half are women and children.

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[–] Sarmyth@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

The news/Lemmy really makes it sound like more. I wonder how many have successfully fled.

I'd be curious to know how much of the 2022 population still exists in Gaza today.

[–] IhaveCrabs111@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

A quick search came up with this suggesting a 6% drop.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/gaza-population-down-by-6-since-start-war-palestinian-statistics-bureau-2025-01-01/

Also interesting to note there’s this saying the population in Gaza went up 2%. Not sure what political leanings world population review have or why such a site would have any but I’m obviously skeptical. https://worldpopulationreview.com/cities/palestine/gaza

23000 hamas fighters remain with a population of around 400000 so around 5%.

[–] CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 hours ago

The 6% announced drop was back in January

[–] redchert@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 7 hours ago

Btw the nazis killed 25% of Belarus population, which was the highest percentage wise.

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 23 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (5 children)

This fucked, since Israel goal is to kill them all. This just means this shit isn't even close to over. Can we please get an American Congress that will put a stop to this?

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 20 points 7 hours ago

There are ~3 congress members out of 535 total who oppose this genocide. Thats ~0.56%, despite the general population of the US being over half opposing the genocide.

The US isn't a democracy, its a capitalist dictatorship, and meaningful change can't come through its own system.

[–] AlHouthi4President@lemmy.ml 17 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

The US government is the primary driver behind this war of extermination

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Hence why I said Congress has the power to stop this. We cut off money and weapons and send our military in to bring aid to Gaza this shit would end.

[–] redchert@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 7 hours ago

Oh you mean like AOC who told us peasants that the iron dome is defensive and of need of american taxdollars.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 7 points 8 hours ago

Most Americans fully support this. AOC votes to send missiles to Israel and the Democrats are falling over eachother to defend her.

[–] lesinge@sh.itjust.works -3 points 15 hours ago

Well over half.