
Either the Gaza Health Ministry just committed narrative suicide or the Israelis are committing the worst genocide ever.
Those are the only conclusions one can draw from the quiet dump of mortality numbers for 2025 — which, for the first time since the start of the conflict between Hamas and Israel in 2023, delineates natural deaths from combat deaths and accidents.
As it turns out, there’s no excess mortality beyond war operations, and those deaths are concentrated where you might think they would be: military-age men.
The data, which were released without much fanfare, show that the proportion of deaths exploded for those in military age range.
“It is evident that the proportion of deaths rose considerably for the 20–34 age group, reaching 28.8% of death cases, and the proportion of deaths for the under-20 age group rose to 28%, whereas it had...


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