{"id":49496,"date":"2024-10-04T18:09:50","date_gmt":"2024-10-05T02:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=49496"},"modified":"2024-10-04T18:09:50","modified_gmt":"2024-10-05T02:09:50","slug":"the-grim-death-toll-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/04\/the-grim-death-toll-in-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"The Grim Death Toll in Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Reprinted from <a href=\"https:\/\/bracingviews.substack.com\/\">Bracing Views<\/a> with the author\u2019s permission.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Ninety-nine American healthcare workers who volunteered to work in Gaza and who\u2019ve witnessed the effects of the Israeli onslaught there suggest that nearly 120,000 Palestinians are already dead.<\/p>\n<p>That huge number doesn\u2019t surprise me. When you look at the photos from Gaza and the Stalingrad-like devastation, I\u2019d guessed that the \u201cofficial\u201d death toll of roughly 42,000 was a serious undercount. That number comes from morgue and hospital statistics; it doesn\u2019t account for people buried under the rubble, for missing people, and of course for people who\u2019ve died of \u201cnatural\u201d causes due to the disruption of hospital care, of potable water supplies, and so on.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>More details are provided in this article at <a href=\"https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2024\/10\/03\/american-healthcare-workers-who-volunteered-in-gaza-say-over-118000-have-been-killed\/\" rel=\"\">Antiwar.com<\/a>. Also, you can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gazahealthcareletters.org\/usa-letter-oct-2-2024\" rel=\"\">read the letter<\/a> written by these 99 healthcare workers, imploring the Biden\/Harris administration to stop providing the bombs, missiles, shells, bullets, and other munitions Israel has been using to shred the bodies of so many innocent people in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNever again\u201d was supposed to be the message we learned from the horrific Holocaust against the Jews perpetrated by the Nazis and their fellow travelers. \u201cNever again\u201d applies to the people of Gaza. It applies to people everywhere who are slaughtered simply because of who they are and because another people wants to be rid of them.<\/p>\n<p>This is the leading reason why I can\u2019t support Biden\/Harris, now Harris\/Walz. I can\u2019t support Trump\/Vance. The U.S. political establishment is completely spineless and immoral in its total support of Israel as it applies its own final solution to the Palestinian question. Whether it\u2019s Harris or Trump, the message is \u201cSupport Israel\u201d no matter what. And I refuse to sanction that. I refuse to vote for that.<\/p>\n<p><i>William J. Astore is a retired lieutenant colonel (USAF). He taught history for fifteen years at military and civilian schools. He writes at <a href=\"https:\/\/bracingviews.substack.com\/\">Bracing Views<\/a>. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author\u2019s permission. Ninety-nine American healthcare workers who volunteered to work in Gaza and who\u2019ve witnessed the effects of the Israeli onslaught there suggest that nearly 120,000 Palestinians are already dead. That huge number doesn\u2019t surprise me. When you look at the photos from Gaza and the Stalingrad-like devastation, I\u2019d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":290,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-49496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":"Nearly 120K Palestinians May Already Be Dead"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/290"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49499,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49496\/revisions\/49499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49496"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=49496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}