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World News@lemmy.world•Zelensky confirms Israel sent Patriot missile battery to Ukraine, says more coming in fallEnglish
02·1 month agoInteresting although contentious letter detailing an estimate of potential indirect conflict deaths (it includes potential future deaths).
However, it seems rather simplistic and/or flawed. They simply multiply the casualties Hamas have reported by a “conservative” x4 multiplier which then gives their number. The multiplier comes from this publication and states that most of the casualties are “indirect and caused mainly by preventable infectious diseases, malnutrition, and neonatal- and pregnancy-related conditions that emerged in the resource-poor post-conflict environment.” - which means that this number includes post-conflict casualties that have not yet happened and are preventable. Furthermore, the base number already includes a lot of indirect civilian deaths, and unlike the other conflicts that the x4 multiplier comes from is heavily reported on and followed by media/authorities.
This article from Die Welte is more recent and examines a more robust study.
Still, even if we took the estimate provided by the Lancet here at face value, OP’s claim of “millions of people” looks like absurd misinfo to me.
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World News@lemmy.world•Zelensky confirms Israel sent Patriot missile battery to Ukraine, says more coming in fallEnglish
01·1 month agomillions of people
Where did you source this data? Based on mainstream sources (UN, OCHA, B’Tselem) the number of Arabs displaced from modern day Israel/former territories of Mandatory Palestine from '47 until 2025 are between 995 - 1’105’000 and the number of casualties 67 - 105’000.
As a comparison, the number of Jews displaced from Arab countries during the same period number somewhere between 800-900’000.
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Uplifting News@lemmy.world•Butter made from carbon tastes like the real thing, gets backing from Bill GatesEnglish
1·3 months agoWhilst yes, uplifting, I also have a certain inherent skepticism to artificial facsimiles. Too often it’s an unwelcome discovery.
For instance about a year ago we found a new product in the cheese aisle, slightly cheaper than regular gouda and called “gaudina” - turns out, not actually cheese but instead made from milk powder, palm oil and other assorted stuff.
Until somebody proves through proper trials and reviews that the products have no statistically significant difference in health outcomes, I’ll be hesitant.
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World News@lemmy.world•Ban on Palestine Action to take effect after legal challenge failsEnglish
0·4 months agoFinding out part of fucking around.
Countries don’t usually take kindly to people or organizations that break into military bases and vandalize equipment.






Some of them definitely. According to Dr HA Hellyer who was interviewed for the article: