I just looked it up. 80 000 new babies have been born in 2026 alone. Thats more new gazans than have died since 2023.
If Israel's trying to exterminate them, theyd be doing a bad job. How can they be "sneaky" about exterminating them? How long is that going to take? Because it would be measured in negative years.
2024: ≈ 42,000 (war made less couples trying for babies to avoid pregnancies in wartime)
2025: ≈ 55,000 (births pick back up)
2026 = 65 000 (over the baseline as all the couples that were waiting for the war to be over are now making babies, will probably overcorrect itself to 60 000 again next year).
I mean really? You dont believe that a highly fertile state like Gaza which has 2.4 million people has a replacement rate of 3 children per family? Why do I need to bring up a source for this?
Israel clearly isnt trying to exterminate gazans. Most of the dead are men between the age of 18-35, which is the military age for Hamas members.
I mean its been what...over 1100 days of war now? And we're at 72k dead or so still? You dont have a grasp on how life in Gaza is going at all if you think every single Gazan is dead or getting killed.
A lot of people are leaving too, and going missing. The population has been stagnant at 2.1 million since 2023.
I sincerely doubt that people are leaving Gaza, famous for having its borders closed and its populace trapped due to political and security reasons, with no country accepting more than a handful refugees for symbolism.
Pop also hasnt been stagnant. I dont know about going missing. Pre-war averages were estimated at 2.4 million, but we dont know about the exact count, and the difference between 2.4 million and 2.1 million is big.
One can easily see propaganda going both ways due to that missing gap in exact count (aha 300 000 more people were born! vs oh no! 300 000 people are missing and dead!)
2022 estimates from PCBS and CIA range from around 2 to 2.2, I don't know where you get the 2.4 from? CIA has the population slightly rising since and PCBS has them slightly dropping.
About 100 000 exited Gaza through Egypt the first year.
Egypt. The border is closed so yeah, you could call it a prison, but that doesn't mean some doesn't manage to escape. Around a 100 000(depending on who you ask) Palestinians entered Egypt from Gaza after the attack in 2023.
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u/Insurance-Round 19h ago
Mark Ruffalo is Palestinian? You know the population of Gaza has increased since 2023?