How many people have been killed by Israel in Gaza since 7 October 2023?
It’s an almost impossible question to answer but, as the likes of the New York Times publish atrocity-minimizing op-eds that argue Israel hasn’t killed all that many people really – certainly not as many people as it could kill if it wanted to with all the big-boy bombs US taxpayers have helped fund – it’s an increasingly important issue to grapple with. “The first question the anti-Israel genocide chorus needs to answer is: Why isn’t the death count higher?” Bret Stephens asked in his recent New York Times op-ed. Here’s the thing, Bret. It almost certainly is
John Mearsheimer estimates that there are between 300,000 - 500,000 killed by Israel either directly through violence or through the destruction of the medical infrastructure and now the enforced starvation. If aid isn’t received in massive quantities then there will be up to a million dead by the end of the year. Around 40% of the total pre genocide population of Gaza.
This is a minutely engineered Holocaust.