10-fold MSM undercounting of 680,000 Gaza deaths

August 21, 2025

Ralph Nader’s reportage on the undercounting of Gaza deaths is now on the US Congressional Record. From data reported in the leading medical journal The Lancet and elsewhere by a succession of expert epidemiologists (Dr Zeina Jamaluddine et al., Dr Rasha Khatib et al., Professor Devi Sridhar) 64,260 Gazans died violently by Day 269 of the Gaza Massacre (30 June 2024) and hence 136,000 Gazans died violently by Day 569 (25 April 2025) with a “conservatively estimated” four times that number (544,000) dying from imposed deprivation for a shocking total of 680,000 deaths from violence and deprivation by 25 April 2025.

Western mainstream media presently report about 60,000 Gaza deaths and thus under-report the carnage over 10-fold. In impoverished countries, about 70% of avoidable deaths from deprivation are those of infants under five. (see Gideon Polya, “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950”).

It is accordingly estimated from available data that by 25 April 2025, the 680,000 Gazans killed (28% of the pre-war Gaza population of 2.4 million) included 380,000 infants under five, 479,000 children in total, 63,000 women and 138,000 men. Interestingly, NSA-informed President Trump claimed 1.7 million Gazans were left, this implying 0.7 million were killed.