Stamatopoulou-Robbins estimates that as many as 67,000 #Gazans may have died of starvation since the start of the war, and that over 10,000 more may not have been counted in the death toll because they are still buried in the rubble caused by #US.-supplied aircraft and bombs. This pushes the number of people killed in the war to well over 100,000, with, sadly, more to come as disease increases in a population bereft of adequate clean water, sanitation, or access to medical care. If the bombing in #Gaza stopped tomorrow, deaths caused by the conflict would continue for some time given the awful conditions people are being forced to live in.
Due to its ongoing role in financing and arming Israel, the United States has more leverage over Israel’s conduct than any other nation, if Washington is willing to use it. It’s possible that #Netanyahu would try to carry on in any case, but without access to U.S. funds, weapons, and logistical and maintenance support his military reach would be more limited, and his ability to spark a regional war would be stymied.
How can any U.S. official speak of the “rules-based international order” with a straight face given Washington’s enabling of the Gaza war? How can Washington press other nations to end systematic abuses of human rights? forbes.com/sites/williamhartun…
Due to its ongoing role in financing and arming Israel, the United States has more leverage over Israel’s conduct than any other nation, if Washington is willing to use it. It’s possible that #Netanyahu would try to carry on in any case, but without access to U.S. funds, weapons, and logistical and maintenance support his military reach would be more limited, and his ability to spark a regional war would be stymied.
How can any U.S. official speak of the “rules-based international order” with a straight face given Washington’s enabling of the Gaza war? How can Washington press other nations to end systematic abuses of human rights? forbes.com/sites/williamhartun…
The Human Costs of the Gaza War Are Even Greater Than You Think
A new paper from Brown University's Costs of War project drives home the immense human costs of the war in Gaza.Forbes
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Proletarian Rage
in reply to Proletarian Rage • • •“With only marginal exceptions, every single person in #Gaza is sick, injured, or both,” the physicians wrote to #Biden. “We worry that unknown thousands have already died from the lethal combination of malnutrition and disease, and that tens of thousands more will die in the coming months, especially with the onset of the winter rains in Gaza. Most of them will be young children.”
Still, factors like the destruction of water infrastructure and sanitary facilities mean the real loss may be incalculable for years to come. Savell said that the numbers used here are a “really solid, conservative minimum number of deaths.”
Given the depletion of Gaza’s medical system, thousands more have likely died due to lack of care for their chronic illnesses. (Cancer care, for example, has been unavailable in Gaza, as has most prenatal care. “A big portion of death tolls from war comes in deaths of newborns, and pregnant mothers,” Savell said. #WarCrimes
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In one year, more than 100,000 deaths in Gaza — aided by $17.9 billion from the U.S. | Analyst News
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