Monday, January 15, 2024

100 Days of War in Gaza - Who is Really Suffering?

This statement was released from the Biden White House on January 14, 2024:

 


Joe Biden (or whoever it is that is speaking on his behalf) conveniently seems to have forgotten these aspects of life in Gaza:

 

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and, most importantly:


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While I am loathe to trust any medical journal after the COVID-19 pandemic, here's what the Lancet has to say about the possibility of inflated mortality reporting from the Gaza Ministry of Health, something that the Israelis have accused Hamas of doing (with my bold):


"Using publicly available information, we compared the Gaza MoH's mortality reports with a separate source of mortality reporting and found no evidence of inflated rates. We conducted a temporal analysis of cumulative-reported mortality within Gaza for deaths of Gazans as reported by the MoH and reported staff member deaths from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), from Oct 7 to Nov 10, 2023. These two data sources used independent methods of mortality verification, enabling assessment of reporting consistency.  We observed similar daily trends, indicating temporal consistency in response to bombing events


Mortality reporting is difficult to conduct in ongoing conflicts. Initial news reports might be imprecise, and subsequent verified reports might undercount deaths that are not recorded by hospitals or morgues, such as persons buried under rubble. However, difficulties obtaining accurate mortality figures should not be interpreted as intentionally misreported data.


Although valid mortality counts are important, the situation in Gaza is severe, with high levels of civilian harm and extremely restricted access to aid. Efforts to dispute mortality reporting should not distract from the humanitarian imperative to save civilian lives by ensuring appropriate medical supplies, food, water, and fuel are provided immediately."


But, then again, residents of Gaza haven't the capacity that their pro-Israel counterparts possess as shown here:




...and here:


Washington is for sale and Israel is in a buying mood which just might be part of the reason why the Biden Administration has not pressured the Netanyahu war cabinet into shutting down its brutal operation in Gaza.


1 comment:

  1. Keep up the good scrutiny, *Viable* .

    Their 'power' to make the lucre filthy ___ { and US, ___ by *compliant* proxy ] --- is perennial

    https://www.axios.com/2024/01/10/wealthy-own-record-share-stock-market





    |"About 93% of U.S. households' stock market wealth is held by the top 10%.

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