February
22, 2024
Ann
Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Crisis in Gaza: Scenario-Based Health Impact
Projections, a joint report by the the London School of Hygiene and Tropical
Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health at Johns Hopkins
University, issued this week, warns that a further 85,750 Palestinians could
die in the next six months from physical trauma and disease if the conflict in
Gaza continues and escalates.
The
figure of 85,750 is a worst case scenario and deaths would reach that level
only if the military assault on Gaza escalates and if the poor hygienic
conditions of the 1.9 displaced Palestinians cause epidemics.
