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This is an implicit admission by the neoliberal establishment that Capitalism was never "lifting people out of poverty", it was simply USAID literally prevent people from barely starving to death, which in itself also tool of imperialism because it was designed to bankrupt farmers to allow for land grabs.

The Neoliberal definition of "extreme poverty" is deeply degrading. they consider barely surviving on an unhealthy diet "being lifted out of extreme poverty.

The 2.15 line the Neoliberals use to measure "extreme poverty" is "a level of income much lower than just the cost of a healthy diet" according to OurWorldInData

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62% want the Democratic Party Leadership replaced, 24% do not.

49% are unsatisfied with the Democratic Party Leadership, 41% are.

lost and keep losing, it must be those filthy pro #palestine, #socialist and #communist, which i condemn as all #hamas because a #genocide #apartheid state which is being funded with my tax dollars to massacre children says so"

Some officials and news agencies have used this development, designed to improve data quality, to undermine the veracity of the data. However, the number of reported deaths is likely an underestimate. The non-governmental organisation Airwars undertakes detailed assessments of incidents in the Gaza Strip and often finds that not all names of identifiable victims are included in the Ministry's list.6 Furthermore, the UN estimates that, by Feb 29, 2024, 35% of buildings in the Gaza Strip had been destroyed,5 so the number of bodies still buried in the rubble is likely substantial, with estimates of more than 10 000.7
Armed conflicts have indirect health implications beyond the direct harm from violence. Even if the conflict ends immediately, there will continue to be many indirect deaths in the coming months and years from causes such as reproductive, communicable, and non-communicable diseases. The total death toll is expected to be large given the intensity of this conflict; destroyed health-care infrastructure; severe shortages of food, water, and shelter; the population's inability to flee to safe places; and the loss of funding to UNRWA, one of the very few humanitarian organisations still active in the Gaza Strip.8
In recent conflicts, such indirect deaths range from three to 15 times the number of direct deaths. Applying a conservative estimate of four indirect deaths per one direct death9 to the 37 396 deaths reported, it is not implausible to estimate that up to 186 000 or even more deaths could be attributable to the current conflict in Gaza. Using the 2022 Gaza Strip population estimate of 2 375 259, this would translate to 7·9% of the total population in the Gaza Strip. A report from Feb 7, 2024, at the time when the direct death toll was 28 000, estimated that without a ceasefire there would be between 58 260 deaths (without an epidemic or escalation) and 85 750 deaths (if both occurred) by Aug 6, 2024.10

Part II: The unspoken number: Gaza’s Missing 377,000

As damning as the legal analysis is, the population data contained within the report’s maps points to a far greater catastrophe. Before the conflict, the population of the Gaza Strip was approximately 2.227 million. The Garb report includes maps displaying IDF estimates for the populations remaining in what are considered the three primary enclaves.

The numbers are as follows:

Gaza City: 1 million
Mawasi: 0.5 million
Central: 0.35 million

The total of these official estimates is 1.85 million people.

Simple arithmetic reveals a horrifying gap: 2.227 million minus 1.85 million leaves 377,000 people unaccounted for.

This number is more than six times the casualty figures commonly discussed in media reports. While some of these individuals may be displaced in the rubble-strewn landscapes outside the main enclaves, the sheer scale of this discrepancy, derived from the occupying power’s own population assessments, is staggering. It suggests a demographic catastrophe — whether from direct casualties, starvation, or disease — far exceeding what the world has been led to believe.

The aid compounds and the missing population are two sides of the same coin. The compounds are positioned and designed in a way that makes them inaccessible to the majority of the population, particularly the one million people in Gaza City who are cut off by the Netzarim corridor. The system is not designed to feed the 1.85 million who can be counted, let alone address the fate of the 377,000 who cannot.

To measure poverty globally, however, we need to apply a poverty line that is consistent across countries.

This is the goal of the International Poverty Line of $2.15 per day — shown in red in the chart — which is set by the World Bank and used by the UN to monitor extreme poverty around the world.

We see that, in global terms, this is an extremely low threshold indeed — set to reflect the poverty lines adopted nationally in the world’s poorest countries. It marks an incredibly low standard of living — a level of income much lower than just the cost of a healthy diet.