{"id":25203,"date":"2024-11-20T13:27:31","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T18:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comw.org\/pda\/?p=25203"},"modified":"2024-11-20T13:27:31","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T18:27:31","slug":"lancet-report-counting-the-dead-in-gaza-difficult-but-essential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comw.org\/pda\/lancet-report-counting-the-dead-in-gaza-difficult-but-essential\/","title":{"rendered":"Lancet report: Counting the dead in Gaza: difficult but essential"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-25200\" src=\"https:\/\/comw.org\/pda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Gaza-Indirect-Deaths-Lancet-768x432-1-250x141.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"141\" srcset=\"https:\/\/comw.org\/pda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Gaza-Indirect-Deaths-Lancet-768x432-1-250x141.jpg 250w, https:\/\/comw.org\/pda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Gaza-Indirect-Deaths-Lancet-768x432-1-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/comw.org\/pda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Gaza-Indirect-Deaths-Lancet-768x432-1-106x60.jpg 106w, https:\/\/comw.org\/pda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Gaza-Indirect-Deaths-Lancet-768x432-1.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lancet\/article\/PIIS0140-6736(24)01169-3\/fulltext\">Report estimates 186,000 direct and indirect deaths.<\/a> &#8220;Armed conflicts have indirect health implications beyond the direct harm from violence. Even if the conflict ends immediately, there will continue to be many indirect deaths in the coming months and years from causes such as reproductive, communicable, and non-communicable diseases. The total death toll is expected to be large given the intensity of this conflict; destroyed health-care infrastructure; severe shortages of food, water, and shelter; the population&#8217;s inability to flee to safe places; and the loss of funding to UNRWA, one of the very few humanitarian organisations still active in the Gaza Strip.&#8221; Article has link to full report. <em>Lancet,<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lancet\/article\/PIIS0140-6736(24)01169-3\/fulltext\">Counting the Dead<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Report estimates 186,000 direct and indirect deaths. &#8220;Armed conflicts have indirect health implications beyond the direct harm from violence. 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