While the official death toll just passed 60,000 people in early February 2025, the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza only counts deaths registered at hospitals and morgues.
Recent statements by US President Donald Trump—who has access to considerable US and Israeli intelligence data—about forcibly transferring “1.6-1.7 million” Gazans and subtracting this figure from the pre-October 7th population of 2.2 to 2.3 million Gazans, the actual death toll could realistically be as high as 600,000 souls.
A shocking collection of before and after drone footage from the skies above Gaza, showing the scale of Israel’s genocidal war and its clear genocidal intent to make the Strip unliveable for the pre-October 7th population of 2.2 to 2.3 million Gazans.
Les Roberts is an Epidemiologist and Professor Emeritus at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. He has taken part in the field measurement of mortality in crises including: Rwanda 1994, more than 30 health Zones in the Democratic Repoublic of Congo 1999-2002, Iraq 2004, Zimbabwe 2007, the Central African Repbulic 2009, 2018, and 2022, and Sierra Leone 2000 and 2014.
Israel—and its supporters—regularly claim that Palestinians lie about how many Palestinians have been killed and injured as a result of Israeli violence. Experts who watch the statistics closely, disagree.
