German Institute’s tacit acknowledgment of the Palestinian genocide in Gaza

According to Isna, the Max Planck Institute for Population Research, the second and largest European institute for population research and one of the largest in the world, has stated in its report that the number of Palestinians killed in the Gaza Strip is higher than what the Palestinian Ministry of Health has announced.

The study also found that the age and gender distribution of violent deaths in Gaza between October 7, 2023 and December 31, 2024 closely resembled demographic patterns observed in several genocides recorded by the United Nations Inter-Agency Group for Child Mortality Estimates (UN IGME).

“Since genocide is a very specific legal term, additional criteria must be met for it to be considered a crime,” the report said. This issue was not the focus of this study.

However, the researchers detailed the statistical modeling used to determine what they called “conflict-related deaths” in Gaza.

According to the Middle East Eye newspaper, the study estimates that between October 7, 2023 and the end of 2024, 78,318 people died in Gaza as a direct result of the war. In further analysis, the institute’s researchers also found that by October 6, 2025, the death toll from the conflict in Gaza may exceed 100,000.

According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza, at least 69,733 Palestinians were killed as a result of the Zionist regime’s war in Gaza.

The Max Planck Institute for Population Research report names the Gaza Ministry of Health, Israel’s Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories (Bet Salam), two United Nations agencies, including the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and the Inter-Agency Group for Child Mortality Estimates and the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics as some of the public sources used to collect the data.

The report also states: “Life expectancy in Gaza has decreased by 44 percent in 2023 and by 47 percent in 2024 compared to the situation without war, which is equivalent to a decrease of 34.4 and 36.4 years, respectively.”

In more than two years of war in the Gaza Strip, Israel has turned this strip into a pile of rubble, which according to UN human rights experts, elites of the issue of genocide and dozens of top world officials amounts to genocide.

The report of this institute, which was presented at the United Nations Development and Trade Conference, states that the bombing of this strip by Israeli forces has turned it into a full-scale humanitarian disaster.

Although the death toll provided by the Max Planck Institute is much higher than that recorded by the Palestinian Ministry of Health, the study declined to examine whether the Israeli attack constituted genocide.

Ana C. Gómez-Ugarte, one of the authors of the report, said: “Our estimates of the impact of the war on life expectancy in Gaza and Palestine are significant, but probably only represent a lower limit of the actual death rate.”

He added: “Our analysis focuses exclusively on direct and conflict-related deaths. The indirect effects of war, which are often greater and more lasting, are not quantified in our considerations.

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