Ninety-nine medical personnel — doctors, surgeons, nurses — who claim to have spent some time as volunteers in Gaza, have put out a letter claiming that the death toll in Gaza is “greater than 118,908.” That astonishing figure is nearly three times the number — 41,000 —put out by the Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry. But […]
Horton Smears Anew
In 2019, five years after a petition first appeared, demanding that a letter in The Lancet accusing the IDF of “massacres” in Gaza be retracted, it seemed that the journal’s editor, Richard Horton, no longer bore ill-will toward Israel. By then Horton had visited Israel and seen how its medical system provides equally excellent care to […]
A Longer Look At The Lancet
Last Friday, I posted a piece at Jihad Watch about a letter that the British medical journal, The Lancet, had just published, without its editor, Richard Horton, subjecting that letter’s contents to any review. The letter claimed, preposterously, that those terrible Israelis may have killed as many as 186,000 people in Gaza, which is four […]
In The Lancet, a Claim of 186,000 Casualties in Gaza
The Lancet is one of the most respected medical journals in the world. Yet it recently published a letter by three authors, two of them Muslim Arabs, claiming that the number of dead in Gaza may be as high as 186,000, more than four times the number —39,000 — claimed by Hamas itself, and Hamas […]