Austin Kilroy

If you’ve got some evidence about overall casualty figures across the whole year of bombing, please bring it to the debate.

Otherwise I think these articles (Airwars, Lancet, France24) speak for themselves. More so than your vague accusations.

Counting the dead in Gaza: difficult but essential By June 19, 2024, 37 396 people had been killed in the Gaza Strip since the attack by Hamas and the Israeli invasion in October, 2023, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, as reported by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.1 The Ministry's figures have been contested by the Israeli authorities, although they have been accepted as accurate by Israeli intelligence services,2 the UN, and WHO. These data are supported by independent analyses, comparing changes in the number of deaths of UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) staff with those reported by the Ministry,3 which found claims of data fabrication implausible.

There are some accusations from the Israeli government and others, unaccompanied by evidence.

In fact the Gaza MoH casualty figures are likely an *underestimate* www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

By contrast, the Israeli government *overestimated* deaths on 7th Oct 2023 by 23% f24.my/A04O

Tell me if I’m wrong, but I thought Gaza MoH casualty figures have proven very accurate during all former Israeli bombing campaigns in Gaza.

Indeed. A brutally destructive war that spurred global anti-war protests by millions of people.

And yet these figures remind us the Israelis have directly killed as many people in Gaza in only 12 months as the US did in Iraq in seven years.