In short, the facts now emerging about the fatalities in Gaza are exactly as we predicted back in 2024.
A lot of people should lose their careers over their ridiculous statistical modelling predicting hundreds of thousands of deaths in outlets like the Lancet and joke NGOs like AOAV. They won’t. They’ll get a free pass. Their blood libel work is done.
Famine allegations, destruction of healthcare, targeting civilians; all debunked by Hamas’s own numbers. That’s before we get to the 5,000 combatants we’ve found on the lists so far (from obituaries released mainly by the militant groups themselves).
The world’s media should hang their heads in shame.
This is not a small detail. It isn't Israeli propaganda or some minor factoid to add to the litany of Gazan suffering.
This is part of the larger cause of Gaza's situation: the Islamist radicalization of Gazan society and politics that began in the 1970s, begat Hamas in the 1980s and reached its apotheosis in Hamas's theocracy and Sinwar's mass-martyrdom strategy.
This is a story about the mass-exploitation of women in Gazan society. (And perhaps also about the comprehensive silence from UN agencies and Western progressives.) But it's mostly a story about the brutal totalitarian theocracy that Hamas's brand of Islam represents, and the self-destructive impulses it continues to foster in Gazan culture and politics.
A society that systematically oppresses its women cannot rebuild into a better future, no matter how much pressure is ever brought to bear on the Israelis.