Mass graves were unearthed after Israeli forces withdrew from Shifa hospital on May 8 2024.<\/p>\n
More than 186,000 deaths in Gaza could result from the Israel-Hamas war<\/a>, according to an analysis published by The Lancet medical journal.<\/p>\n The analysis, which was published in The Lancet\u2019s correspondence section, was not peer-reviewed, but it underscores the difficulty of accurately documenting the conflict\u2019s death toll<\/a>. The official Gaza toll since Oct. 7 is at least 38,000<\/a>, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.<\/p>\n The researchers pointed to the number of eventual indirect deaths in recent conflicts, which ranged from three to 15 times the number of direct deaths.<\/p>\n \u201cEven if the conflict ends immediately, there will continue to be many indirect deaths in the coming months and years from causes such as reproductive, communicable, and non-communicable diseases,\u201d they wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n For their estimate, the researchers added four indirect deaths for each direct death reported so far in Gaza<\/a>, concluding that \u201cit is not implausible to estimate that up to 186,000 or even more deaths could be attributable to the current conflict.\u201d<\/p>\n