Danny Wakil denies that Israel is committing genocide claiming that Hamas inflates the figures and that probably 17,000 of the 40,000(sic) Palestinian victims, were Hamas fighters (October 23).
What about the other 23,000 innocent deaths, Danny, or don’t they count?
The British medical journal, The Lancet, employed highly sophisticated estimates of Israel’s massacres and arrived at approximately 186,000 dead (including those buried under the rubble and in mass graves).*
Given the number of journalists and press killed and now the threats Israel is making against six Gaza-based Al Jazeera reporters, it is amazing any news of Israel’s atrocities is coming out, for example Israeli soldiers have been videoing themselves vandalising and stealing Palestinians’ property and beating up their captives.
Danny claims he is a great supporter of Palestine but never once does he refer to Jewish Voice for Peace, B’Tselem, +972, the Israeli Refusers Network nor does he praise the hundreds of Jews who shut down the NY Stock Exchange.
Gareth W R Smith, Byron Bay
Ed: The Lancet study said if there were four indirect deaths (from factors such as disease and destroyed infrastructure) for every one direct death, it was not implausible that 186,000 deaths or more could be attributed to the Gaza war Al Jazeera, July 2024).
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