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by cholantesh 161 days ago
Estimates of birth that rely on the mid-2023 figure and deliberately ignore Israel's systematic dismantling of the health and food systems in Gaza and the drop in fertility levels.

>the casualty count that Hamas claims

The Gaza Health Ministry's count is widely regarded as an underestimate, but mostly by people who don't refer to it with a dogwhistling caveat.

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4000 deliveries in march of 2025. 50000 pregnant woman [1]

50,000 births by july of 2024 (starting with october 7th 2023) [2]

you can sum and extrapolate the numbers. you can probably find more numbers about births

[1] https://www.savethechildren.net/news/about-130-children-born...

[2] https://www.savethechildren.net/news/women-self-inducing-lab...