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How UK-based watchdog Airwars is counting the Gaza death toll

By France24
19 December 2023   |   10:29 am
How can the deaths of Palestinians in Gaza be monitored by outside organisations? Nearly 19,000 people have been killed in 10 weeks of war, according to the Hamas-run health authorities. The credibility of those statistics has at times been undermined by sceptical world leaders, including US President Joe Biden. In Perspective, FRANCE 24's Gavin Lee spoke to Emily Tripp from UK-based transparency watchdog Airwars, which is using open-source data to try to verify the death toll in the Gaza Strip.

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