For months I have been pointing out the
vast undercount of deaths in Gaza under the Israeli Regime's daily
bombardment of civilians and their infrastructure and suspension of
food, water, medicine, electricity, fuel and lack of shelter and
healthcare. These messages have been ignored by the mainstream media and
the independent media.
Now, will the media alert itself to another source of probative data
from an anthropologist, Yaakov Garb, of Ben-Gurion University in Israel?
His academic analysis of aid distribution compound maps and data
reveals an estimated Gaza population of 1.85 million—a precipitous
decline from the pre-October 7th total of 2.227 million people. A
permissible question inferred from these estimates is: Where are the
missing 377,000 Palestinians?
Because of the siege, embargo and blockade that has made Gaza the
world’s largest open air prison, it is likely that Palestinians who are
missing are deceased. There is also a lot of probative evidence from
many credible sources—eg. The Lancet, University of Edinburgh and other
universities, UN agencies, and nonprofit relief organizations—that the
self-serving vast death undercount of Hamas is in reality multiples
larger. The only question is how many multiples. American doctors back
from Gaza have related that most of the survivors, including babies and
children, are either sick, injured, starving or dying.
Based on all these sources and the empirical and clinical evidence, it
would not be surprising if the estimate has reached 500,000 deaths—or a
little more than 1 out of 4—caused by Israel in this tiny enclave. That
number is greater than the number of U.S. soldiers and sailors killed in
World War II.
The mainstream media has plenty of material to dig into if they shed
their indifference or ignorance or bias against the Palestinians. The
mainstream media has no problem estimating the number of Syrians killed
by the Assad regime or the number of lost lives in the Sudan or Ukraine.
But somehow they give the Hamas undercount credibility? For different
reasons both Hamas and Netanyahu like an undercount. They should not be
so indulged.