Gaza health ministry lies about casualties: The vast majority of amputees are adult males!

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The Health Ministry in the Gaza Strip has documented 4,500 cases of amputations, involving both upper and lower limbs, since the outset of the Israeli genocidal war on the besieged Palestinian enclave, Anadolu Agency reported, citing a senior health official in Gaza.

"We have recorded 4,500 amputation cases by the end of 2024, as a result of the continuous Israeli airstrikes and ground attacks on Gaza," Zaher al-Wahidi, the head of the Health Information Unit at the ministry, confirmed in a statement on Friday.

Al-Wahidi highlighted that approximately 800 of the amputees were children, representing 18% of the cases, while 540 were women, accounting for 12%.

According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics citing the health ministry, some 64% of those killed in Gaza are women and children.

How is it possible that 64% of those killed in Gaza are women and children, but 70% of the amputees are adult males? Those losing limbs would certainly be a representative sample of those who lost their lives and have similar demographics - bombs cannot be calibrated to kill mostly women and children but to maim mostly adult men, which is what the health ministry is claiming.

Roughly half of the population of Gaza is under 18, and roughly half of the remainder are women. If Israel's bombings were indiscriminate, we would see over 70% of the amputees to be women and children and less than 30% to be adult males, not the other way around.

Statistically speaking, the chances that a similar population would have such different results for fatalities and amputations (p-value) is less than 0.01%.

Unless Gaza doctors deliberately choose not to perform amputations on women and children, preferring that they die instead, those two statistics cannot be reconciled. Even I don't think the doctors are that monstrous.

This is yet additional proof that the Gaza health ministry lies about fatalities.