"Civilians in Gaza have sustained injuries of a type and on a scale more usually seen among professional soldiers involved in intense combat operations, research has found. A study published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) found that some types of wounds such as burns or injuries to legs were more common among civilians in Gaza than among US soldiers fighting in recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan."
"The peer-reviewed research, the first of its kind, drew on data provided between August 2024 and February 2025 by dozens of international medical professionals who have worked in Gaza during the nearly two-year-old conflict. Irfan said the data did not include most fatal injuries. This is data for the patients who made it to hospital and so survived. We don't even have a full profile of the serious injuries of those who died without any medical attention, he said."
Data collected between August 2024 and February 2025 from dozens of international medical professionals show civilians in Gaza sustaining injuries comparable to those of professional soldiers in intense combat. Burns and leg injuries were reported more frequently among Gaza civilians than among US soldiers in recent Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts. The dataset covers nearly 24,000 trauma-related injuries among patients who reached hospitals and survived, excluding most fatal injuries and those who died without medical attention. The wider conflict since 7 October 2023 has produced tens of thousands of Palestinian deaths, widespread displacement, and large-scale destruction.
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