Letter
A land of standing corpses
As John Menadue correctly points out, the death toll in Gaza is far higher than those killed directly by Israeli bombs and bullets. A conservative multiplier of four indirect deaths to every one direct killing gives a minimum of 300,000.
But this overlooks the fundamental point: genocide is not simply about killing. Killing is but one of the depraved ways that Israel is committing genocide.
Israel’s Zionazi holocaust is about the destruction of the Palestinian People. A Semitic people, no less. To fully gauge that destruction, one needs to look to different research; Guillot et al, Lancet, February 8 2025, Life expectancy losses in the Gaza Strip during the period October, 2023, to September, 2024.
Their research determined that “In the central variant, life expectancy in the Gaza Strip decreased by 34·9 years during the first 12 months of the war, about half (–46·3%) the prewar level of 75·5 years.” That was before Israel’s criminally induced famine.
Today, the life expectancy of a Palestinian baby born in Gaza is about the same as a Jewish baby born in Auschwitz. They don’t have one. The destruction is absolute. Gaza is, like Auschwitz, at best, a land of standing corpses.
— Rick Pass from Home Hill FNQ