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The collapse of Gaza's civilian infrastructure impedes any proper accounting of civilian casualties. This has led to the woefully undercounted figure of 43,000 killed. But when we add to this the 10,000 people acknowledged as "missing" (i.e. lying under the rubble) and then factor in the Lancet report's deliberately conservative estimate of four indirect deaths for every direct violent death, we have around 265,000 dead. That is roughly 12% of Gaza's pre-war population.
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November 11th
Women and children account for nearly 70 percent of Palestinians killed in the Gaza Strip during the period from November 2023 to April 2024, the UN said on Friday following a partial count of war casualties.
The new report by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights also details a wide range of violations of international law, amounting to war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.
The UN Human Rights Office verified 8,119 of the more than 34,500 people believed to have died in the first six months of the war and found that “almost 70 percent were women and children.”
“We believe this is representative of the distribution of the total number of deaths. A similar proportion to that given by the Gaza authorities,” said Ravina Shamdasani, spokesperson for the High Commissioner.
The number and nature of the victims in Gaza have been the subject of a recurring debate since the beginning of the war of extermination unleashed by Israel. The UN and many countries believe that the daily assessment of the Hamas Ministry of Health is reliable.
According to the Office of the High Commissioner, the ratio of women to children indicates “a systematic violation of the fundamental principles of
international humanitarian law, in particular distinction and
proportionality”. Of the verified deaths, 3,588 were children and 2,036 were women, according to the report.
A massacre without historical precedents
“This unprecedented level of killing, and injury of civilians is a direct consequence of the failure to comply with the fundamental principles of international humanitarian law,” accused the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, in a press release. “Tragically,
these documented patterns of violations continue unabated, over one year
after the start of the war,” he added.
According to his office, around 80 percent of all verified deaths occurred in attacks on residential buildings or similar accommodations, and nearly 90 percent of people died in incidents that claimed the lives of five or more people.
The high proportion of verified deaths in residential buildings could be partly explained by the office’s “verification methodology,” which requires at least three independent sources. It also notes that it is more difficult to collect and verify information about those killed in other circumstances.
The report released Friday highlights that verified deaths largely reflect the demographic makeup of the general Gaza population, rather than that of fighters from any resistance militia.
188 journalists killed
The killing of four more journalists on Saturday brings the number of those killed during the Israeli massacre to 188. It is a unique case in history that should have sparked a wave of indignation in the media around the world
The government media office in the Gaza Strip deplores the “increase in the number of journalists martyred to 188, since the beginning of the genocidal war in the Gaza Strip.”
Early on Saturday, the Israeli army bombed a shelter at the Fahd Al Sabah school, which houses displaced people in the centre of Gaza City, killing seven Palestinians, according to a medical source, including two journalist brothers Zahra and Ahmed Mohamed Abou Skheil, who worked for the News channel.
The other two journalists are Mustapha and Abderrahmen Kheder Bahr, who worked for the local agency “Palestine Urgence.” The first was killed on March 31, 2024 near Kuwait House, south of Gaza City, while the second, a photographer, was killed on October 6, 2024 in the town of al-Karama, west of Gaza City.
The media office condemned the murder and attacks on journalists by Israel and calls on the international community to exert pressure to “end the murder and killing of journalists.”
Israel continues its genocide, ignoring the decision of the Security Council to end it immediately and the orders of the International Court of Justice calling for preventive measures to prevent genocide and calling for an improvement in the catastrophic humanitarian situation in Gaza.
The Israeli offensive in Gaza has already claimed 43,469 lives, mostly civilians, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, and has caused a humanitarian disaster of major proportions. In addition, there are 10,000 missing and more than 100,000 injured.
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