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The gap? "Omar Hussein Ali, head of the ministry's emergency operations centre in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, said these were bodies that had arrived at hospitals or medical centres without personal data such as identity numbers or full names." reuters.com/world/middle-east/gaza-death-toll-how-many-palestinians-has-israels-campaign-killed-2024-07-25/
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An @airwars study of the first month of the war found tight correspondence between publicly available reports of deaths and those recorded in the MoH lists, with a variety of understandable reasons for those they couldn't match.
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Their data visualization explaining this matching is itself a monument to the loss suffered by ordinary people in Gaza. gaza-civilians.airwars.org/
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If you, like me, are trying to find ways to keep connection to the human beings behind all this loss, here are places to start. Airwars incident reports: airwars.org/conflict/israel-and-gaza-2023/ Martyrs are not numbers: gaza23.com/stories Remember Gaza: remembergaza.id/


