Crisis in Gaza: Projected Deaths due to Traumatic Injuries in the Rafah...
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Rafah traumatic injury deaths could be over 3,500 from May 20 to August 17, 2024, finds new Gaza Projections report from researchers at Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, U. of London.
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New Report from the Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health. The current Israel-Gaza war, which began on October 7, 2023, has had an immense humanitarian impact. This project aims to provide projections of excess mortality for different causes of excess mortality.
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