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41,431 Palestinians claimed killed in Israel's Gaza offensive since Oct 7
2024-09-23
[GEO.TV] At least 41,431 Palestinians have been killed and 95,818 injured in Israel's military offensive on Gaza since October 7, the Gaza health ministry said in a statement on Sunday.
Simple solution: Surrender now, don't start any more wars.
Posted by:Fred

#8  Calculations provided by Dominion [and registering them in Dearborn]
Posted by: Procopius2k   2024-09-23 19:32  

#7  "This is my brother Abu Daryl, and my other brother Abu Daryl"
Posted by: Frank G   2024-09-23 12:10  

#6  From 2006, published by the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies at Bar-Ilan U:

The Million Person Gap: A Critical Look at Palestinian Demography

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Population statistics and predictions of the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) are unreliable. A BESA study that subjects Palestinian demography to rigorous analysis shows that the 2004 Palestinian population of the West Bank and Gaza stood at 2.5 million; not the 3.8 million claimed by the Palestinians. The 1997 PCBS population survey – which has been widely used as the basis for subsequent studies – inflated numbers by including over three hundred thousand Palestinians living abroad and double-counting over two hundred thousand Jerusalem Arabs included in Israel’s population survey. Later PCBS broadcasts echoed the forecasts of the 1997 study, reporting unrealized birth forecasts, including assumptions of mass Palestinian immigration that never occurred, and disregarding significant Palestinian emigration from the territories to Israel and neighboring Arab countries. The resulting PCBS report for 2004 inflated the size of the Arab population in the West Bank and Gaza by over fifty percent. The BESA study and further demographic research indicate that Israeli concerns about demographic pressure from the West Bank and Gaza have been exaggerated.
Posted by: trailing wife   2024-09-23 11:53  

#5  The US State Department report states: "The U.S. government estimates the total Palestinian population at 3 million in the West Bank and 2 million in the Gaza Strip (midyear 2022)." It does not, however, indicate the source of that data. It is likely, as stated above, that the figures are overstated for reasons given above.
Posted by: S MAI   2024-09-23 11:03  

#4  #2 Neh, nobody (who matters) checks their numbers.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2024-09-23 09:50  

#3  ^ Good take on it
Posted by: Frank G   2024-09-23 07:54  

#2  Considering that Gaza gets money and food from the UN, it would make sense that over the years Hamas inflated Gazan population with fake names to get more resources from the UN and other donors.

Now, they can write off these fake people as killed by Israelis, and use those names to artificially add to the death toll.

Obviously this is just a guess from me. But it would make sense if they did do this.


Posted by: Penguin_of_the_Best_Desert    2024-09-23 07:52  

#1  

Looking at the links screen counter pic, the 1st thing I thought. Hamas sure misjudged the IDF response to that terrorist operation.

Next.
How little HAMAS cared about Gazan's.

The next was the Number of Hostages freed since Oct. 7th.

Most of the hostages that were released were part of a very short-lived hostage-and-ceasefire deal. A deal which ran between Hamas and Israel from Nov 24th to Dec 1st.

Then HAMAS needed to act like it was in charge and started demanding and getting greedy. Which I feel pushed the IDF into a GAZA wide rescue mission and a military natural goal of eliminating HAMAS to keep this from happening again.

Which then exposed how deep GAZA was into supporting Anti-Israel Terrorists.

Then just where in the hell does the Gaza health ministry get it data or does it just add 40 to its count for what IDF claims?

Finally as much as I hate to give credit to CNN,
A good link with the names and pictures of the released Hostages .

You also note the majority of the hostages were females and or children.
Posted by: NN2N1   2024-09-23 04:59  

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