• Creazle@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Wait, where did the .49% figure come from? I can't see it in the article

    Even if you take the remaining 1.5m that have not escaped been displaced from gaza that the article indicates, you're still looking at a discrepancy of a couple of orders of magnitude. Am I missing something?

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      1 year ago

      Well

      the United Nations said that more than 1.5 million people, which is more than half of Gaza’s population, have been displaced.

      I guess OP said 10,000 / 3,000,000 = 1/300 = .33% so a bit lower but maybe 3 Million is approximate?

      Google says 2.048 population so 1/204.8 which is 0.48%

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      1 year ago

      A. The 1.5 million people have not "escaped" or been displaced "from Gaza", they've been forced to move to different places in the Gaza Strip: shelters predominantly. There's no ingress/egress from Gaza. It's basically a giant open-air prison.

      Israel erected a giant cage around the land boundary of the whole strip in 1993. There's only 3 exits, all of which are closed: the Rafah crossing into Egypt, the Kerem Shalom crossing at the corner where Israel and Egypt touch, and the Erez crossing into Israel in the north.

      Israel enforces a blockade of the shoreline, and a no fly zone. They destroyed Gaza's airport in 2001.

      B. "More than half" is doing some pretty heavy lifting. 1.5 million is closer to 75%.

      C. 10,022 / 2,048,000 = 0.489355%. Since the post yesterday, Israel has killed another 283 people which brings it up to 10,305 / 2,048,000 = 0.503%.