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3/21/24 Kyle Anzalone on the Deliberate Shortage of Medical Supplies in Gaza

Scott Horton Show - Just the Interviews

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True devastation of the Gaza war

The official numbers reported for the Gaza war are severely underestimated, with thousands of missing persons and unaccounted bodies. Israel's bulldozing activities indicate a much higher death toll than officially reported. The estimated 32,000 casualties are likely far higher, possibly in the tens of thousands. Additionally, the reported 70,000 wounded individuals are believed to be a significant undercount, with many serious injuries not being accounted for. Half of these wounds are categorized as moderate to severe, leading to life-long disabilities, amputations, and serious burns, overwhelming the healthcare system in Gaza. Israeli actions of raiding hospitals further exacerbate the already critical healthcare situation in the region.

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Speaker 1
the official numbers from the Gaza health ministry is now about 32,000. The UNICEF says 13,000 children have been killed, but these are undercounts. And so it's getting to the point where I'm almost hesitant to use those numbers because it is important because they are official numbers and official death tolls. But thousands of people are missing. And now we see Israel just bulldozing large swaths of the Gaza Strip with absolutely no care about if their bodies anywhere, people who will never be counted. And so it may be that we really don't understand the true devastation of this war for many, many years to come. And so that 32,000 number is there, but that number is far higher. I'm not sure how high, but thousands, if not tens of thousands.
Speaker 2
Yeah, the fact to just bulldozing all those bodies away like that, all those people buried alive. Right.
Speaker 1
Well, you know, a couple of things I want to add there, Scott, on the numbers, they cite 70,000 people wounded. And I had imagined that this had to be a massive undercount, seeing how there are people dying on the floors of hospitals. So my guess is if you have a concussion or, you know, really anything short of maybe a broken lower limb, you know, a serious, serious laceration or something like that, you're probably not going bothering going to the hospital or getting counted. And one, the doctors explained that about half of those people, half of those wounds are moderate to severe, which means they're going to be a lifelong disability. So you know, that 70,000, that's a lot of very serious wounds. That's thousands and thousands, not tens of thousands of amputations or, you know, serious burns, you know, people having no skin over large parts of their body that the healthcare system is now trying to deal with. And we had the Israelis time and time again, rating these hospitals and shutting them down as the Palestinians are doing their best to care for the people there.

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