Gaza Mortality Study Gains Wide International Media Coverage

A new peer-reviewed mortality study on Gaza co-authored by VIEWS Director Håvard Hegre has rapidly gained global attention, being picked up by more than 70 news articles in the days following publication.

Major international media have highlighted the findings, including The Guardian (front page coverage), The Telegraph, Al Jazeera, Le Monde, Reuters, LBC, Middle East Eye, and National Herald India, as well as Nordic news outlets SVD, SVT, Sveriges Radio, DN, Swedish TV4, GP, Aftonbladet, Sydsvenskan, NRK, Norwegian TV2, HBL, reflecting the strong public interest in independent, survey-based estimates of conflict impacts.

The study, published in The Lancet Global Health, uses a large household survey to estimate violent deaths in Gaza during the first 16 months of the war, and discusses why deaths may be undercounted when reporting systems are disrupted by conflict.

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