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Estimates of birth that rely on the mid-2023 figure and deliberately ignore Israel's systematic dismantling of the health and food systems in Gaza and the drop
by cholantesh 9mo ago
Estimates of birth that rely on the mid-2023 figure and deliberately ignore Israel's systematic dismantling of the health and food systems in Gaza and the drop in fertility levels.
>the casualty count that Hamas claims
The Gaza Health Ministry's count is widely regarded as an underestimate, but mostly by people who don't refer to it with a dogwhistling caveat.
- tguvot 9mo ago4000 deliveries in march of 2025. 50000 pregnant woman [1] 50,000 births by july of 2024 (starting with october 7th 2023) [2] you can sum and extrapolate the numbers. you can probably find more numbers about births [1] https://www.savethechildren.net/news/about-130-children-born-daily-gaza-amid-total-siege-aid-and-goods https://www.savethechildren.net/news/about-130-children-born... [2] https://www.savethechildren.net/news/women-self-inducing-labour-and-facing-life-threatening-complications-pregnancy-after-nine https://www.savethechildren.net/news/women-self-inducing-lab...
- nailer 9mo ago[flagged]
- topaz0 9mo agoBecause the infrastructure required to document the deaths systematically was bombed to hell.
- FunnyUsername 9mo agoThey don't rely on infrastructure like morgues, they collected casualty reports from a Google form, and later a self-hosted form: https://sehatty.ps/moh-registration/public/add-order https://sehatty.ps/moh-registration/public/add-order