My latest piece in TRT: Counting Gaza's dead met with meritless attacks

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As Gaza's death toll rises, unprecedented denial and disinformation surge.

Attacks on the credibility of researchers and the suppression of accurate data continue to obstruct the true scale of tragedy that Palestinians are facing.

By Rebekah Jones

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Direct casualties in Gaza have nearly reached 40,000 people since last October, with at least 10,000 Palestinians still reported missing and presumed dead.

A recent article in the the Lancet journal estimated that total casualties in Gaza may already be as high as 186,000 people, once the scale of the conflict and indirect deaths are considered. The authors used standard applications of statistics based on studies of conflict zones to provide the most broad (and conservative) estimates of the tru…