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Deaths from Israeli attacks in Gaza undercounted by 41 percent, study finds

People search the rubble of a building destroyed in an Israeli attack on the Bureij camp for Palestinian refugees in the central Gaza Strip [Eyad Baba/AFP]

An official Palestinian tally of deaths in Israel’s war in Gaza likely undercounted the toll by 41 percent in the first nine months of the conflict as the Gaza Strip’s healthcare infrastructure unravelled, according to a study.

The peer-reviewed statistical analysis published in The Lancet journal on Thursday was conducted by academics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Yale University and other institutions.

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