Gazan women and children death count ‘statistically impossible’, Australian academics say
Gazan authorities’ repeated claims that women and children make up 70 per cent of the more than 30,000 Gazan casualties since the war started is “statistically impossible”, according to an analysis undertaken by three Australian academics.
They note that in late February, the Gazan Ministry of Health announced casualties had topped the 30,000 mark and that 70 per cent of them were women and children.
That figure has been repeatedly cited by Gazan authorities during the course of the war, their paper says. Yet 43 per cent of those 30,000 were not hospital-registered deaths and were included as coming from “reliable media sources”.
Those unregistered deaths have been manipulated to dramatically overstate female and child casualties, the paper says.Of the some 7000 unregistered deaths reported by both the MoH and the Hamas Government Media Office as at the end of 2023, the paper concludes just 10 were purported to be male. “
This is obviously absurd,” report co-author, lawyer and University of Wollongong academic Greg Rose said.
“It’s clear the data, particularly the unregistered ‘media sources’ deaths, are being manipulated to contain almost no males.”
Professor Rose, along with Adelaide-based population economist Tom Simpson and RMIT biomathematician Lewi Stone, used publicly available data sources to adduce their findings through a statistical analysis.
“This paper demonstrates that the casualty figures concerning women and children are statistically impossible,” the study concludes. “Our results cast serious doubt on all other aspects of the Gazan death counts.”https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/gazan-women-and-children-death-count-sta...