Why is anyone still reporting the Gaza death toll as 62,000?
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Why is anyone still reporting the Gaza death toll as 62,000?
That is the number of people killed by Israel in violent attacks – bodies that could be identified and counted by a health system that has been in utter collapse for the past 18 months.
The headline figure doesn't include the bodies vaporised by bombs, the bodies decomposing under rubble, the bodies eaten by feral dogs, the bodies that were so disfigured as to be unrecognisable.
Or those who have died of pre-existing medical conditions that could not be treated because Israel destroyed all the hospitals and killed and jailed Gaza's medical personnel.
Or those who have starved to death, or who have succumbed to infections because of weakened immunity and a lack of shelter and sanitation.
Israel is responsible for all those deaths. It killed all those people. That number is unknown but is likely to be in the 100,000s. As a proportion, it is likely to be 10 or 20 or even 30 per cent of Gaza's population.
If the media must cite the 62,000 figure, those limiting factors need to be expressly acknowledged.
Otherwise, the western media is engaging in disinformation – and disinformation designed to prolong Israel's genocide.
posted by Satish Sharma at
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