On 13 July 2024, nine months after Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza had begun, one of the world’s most prestigious medical journals, The Lancet , published a letter from Zion Hagay, Chairman of the Israeli Medical Association (IMA), and Malke Borow, the head of the IMA legal department. Part of it read as follows: “There is no question that many in Gaza have died, although the exact numbers are unverified and sometimes misreported. Furthermore, other voices present an entirely different view…”