For the Gaza study, researchers compared the official Palestinian Health Ministry death count, which in the first months of war was based entirely on bodies that arrived in hospit

UK-led group of researchers estimated that almost 60 per cent of deaths were women, children and the elderly Research published in The Lancet medical journal on Friday estimates that the death toll in Gaza during the first nine months of the war between Israel and Hamas was around 40 per cent higher than recorded by the Palestinian territory's