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I loosely but regularly follow the Gaza death and injury tallies provided by the PC. With the ceasefire holding for the most part, I had assumed or hoped that as missing persons (aka, the unaccounted for dead) were found, their number would drop towards zero as the number of known deaths rose in accordance. I did not expect this revision:

“Killed” soared over the weekend and “missing” increased as well. It’s safe to assume 99% of the missing are dead too, likely killed martially. So, as-is now, the total of known kinetic deaths is almost 76,000. It is possible health authorities are factoring in ancillary deaths (disease and starvation directly attributed to the conflict). We’ll have to see what’s announced. Whether or not that’s the case, the known and/or suspected total dead in the Gazacaust is steadily rising towards or in conjunction with the estimate factors laid out last summer by the Lancet. 76,000 dead is approximately 4% of the Gaza population. Increased by a factor or 4-5, it could easily be 15-20%.

Anyone who tells you the zionists and yankees have not committed genocide against the Palestinians is a wicked, stupid, reality-denying, math-challenged, demon-possessed fool.

UPDATE REVISION: It appears someone perhaps fat fingered the calculator the other day. Back in line with last week now, though still awful.

UPDATE: they factored in the missing: