'Bloodiest 21st century war': New study finds Gaza's real death toll nears 100,000

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The pre-print of a new study led by Prof. Michael Spagat of Royal Holloway, University of London, and Palestinian political scientist Dr. Khalil Shikaki has revealed that Gaza's death toll from the ongoing conflict could be nearly 100,000, a figure significantly higher than official reports, Haaretz reported on 26 June.

The Gaza Mortality Survey (GMS), the most comprehensive to date, estimates around 75,200 violent deaths between October 2023 and January 2025—nearly 40 percent higher than the Gaza Health Ministry's reported death toll of 45,660 at the time.

Researchers carried out a detailed household survey, interviewing 2,000 families—around 9,700 individuals—to independently evaluate fatalities.

The study estimated 8,540 additional non-violent deaths through January, bringing the combined fatality count for that period to 83,740. Gaza's Health Ministry has recorded over 10,000 more deaths since then, raising the current total to nearly 100,000 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces.

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'Bloodiest 21st century war': New study finds Gaza's real death toll nears 100,000

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'Bloodiest 21st century war': New study finds Gaza's real death toll nears 100,000

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100,000 directly killed by weapons is not the "death toll". It's likely 400,000 dead via direct and indirect causes.
- Victims of communism memorial will include someone stubbing their toe but these fuckers will only include dying to bombs.
  
  And only dying to bombs where someone saw or enough is left of you to identify
Don't want to minimize the genocide one bit, since it's truly horrific, but the bloodiest 21st century war is the Second Congo War which had around four million deaths. Besides, the genocide in Gaza can hardly be called a "war" at all.
- Second Congo War
  We really don't get enough information on this one in the English-speaking world. One of the largest (or just the largest?) conflicts since WW2 and it was a conventional war (as opposed to an imperialist nation vs. an insurgency). Some wild shit happened in the Second Congo War and we never hear about it.
  
  To be fair, you cant fully divorce it from imperialism. It was an ex Marxist and ex follower of Lumumba, vs Mobutu, a CIA installed leader who started out as a comprador but eventually became a nuisance for them.
  
  Yeah it's better framed as an African world war, since there were a dozen nations involved in different fronts, with various different sides, insurgency groups, states with air forces, different phases, etc. It was a total shit show. I'm glad the third one didn't spiral out of control. The mineral deal the DRC signed with Trump is pretty awful but not nearly as awful as a full blown third Congo War at the scale of the second.
- the Second Congo War which had around four million deaths
  Would you be so kind as to provide some links for the comrades that want to educate ourselves about this war?
  
  There's really not very robust sources in the Anglophone world on this war. Best I've read is a book called Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe by a French scholar, avaliable here: https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=D9F45E6B6E34D3D05EBB477305EC7102
these gross undercounts are enraging and negligent
- It's almost certainly 4 times what this study claims.
A war is when two armies are fighting.
nears 100,000? I'd be surprised af if it wasn't that over a year ago
- We don't know the real number because Isn'treal bombed every hospital
  
  Some of the numbers are gotten by surveying families or communities also. If an entire family or community is killed it would be tougher to report the numbers. Israel and the western world that has enabled this will never be absolved.
That's surely an undercount. Wasn't there a Lancet paper like a year ago that estimated a quarter million?
- https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0140-6736%2824%2901169-3
  186 000 upper bound from July 2024
What about the 300 trillion Russians that Ukrainian grandmothers killed in just the last month?
- Those weren't men, they were orcs /s
War is when you shoot starving unarmed people lining up for flour laced with poison!
"war"
Anyone with a brain knows it's way, way more than that.

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