At the war's start the MoH death toll was probably fairly accurate. At this time, the numbers were based solely on deaths registered at hospitals and morgues. In past Gaza conflicts, the figures produced by MoH matched those independently calculated by both the UN and Israel. On October 26t...
The question that has been haunting me is, how many people — especially children — must die in Gaza before the Israeli military feels satisfied and agrees to a ceasefire? The most recent figures on the number of civilian deaths stands at 7,000, with child deaths approaching 3,...
While Israel bears primary responsibility to avoid excessive civilian deaths in its bombardment of Gaza, Hamas' ability to claim the bombardment constitutes a war crime would be weakened if it deliberately places its own people in harm's way. ...
Israel-Hamas war: Gaza's morgue network has effectively collapsed - how are they recording their dead? During the first months of the war in Gaza, deaths were counted through a network of computers connecting morgues across the territory. It was a system that, in the yea...
When Israel was established in 1948, many Palestinian refugees where forced to move to the strip of land. In 1967, Israel gained control of Gaza after its victory in the Six-Day War against Egypt, Syria and Jordan. A Palestinian uprising in 2000 unleashed a new wave of violence between Isr...
Gaza has been under a hermetic Israeli siege for nearly two decades, during which Israel has launched major wars on the region—starting in 2008 and culminating in the latest onslaught. This recent war, however, was not just another round of violence. It was genocidal in scope, a cam...
AI softwareto scan satellite imagery for bomb craters and destruction. In December this enabled the New York Times to conclude that “during the first six weeks of the war in Gaza, Israel routinely used one of its biggest and most destructive bombs in areas it designated safe for civilians”...
In Gaza, the enclave’s tiny Christian community said that they were happy about the election of a new leader of the Catholic Church. They also expressed confidence he would give importance to the war-torn enclave like his predecessor Pope Francis did. ...
Footage of a funeral staged in Jordan to evade a pandemic lockdown was misrepresented as Palestinians faking deaths in Gaza. A 2014 video of the Islamic State destroying a mosque in Syria was labeled as the Israeli bombing of a Palestinian mosque.” Why? Vats explains: “Dispens...
“But then, the terror attack in Tel Aviv and the deaths of many soldiers in Lebanon and Gaza hours before our High Holy Days affected my approach to God. Really? How? Again? On the eve of Rosh Hashanah? It’s just too much!