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Your Bi-Weekly Fact
More than 20,000 children in Gaza are unaccounted for since Israel’s war on Gaza began on October 7, 2023.
• This includes more than 4,000 children who are under the rubble and presumed dead.
• It includes children who are buried in unmarked graves.
• It includes children who are detained and disappeared by Israeli forces.
• It includes children separated from their families.
The 20,000 children unaccounted for is in addition to more than 14,000 children killed by Israel and 12,000 injured. In October and November alone, 1,000 children had leg amputations (more than 10 children a day).
37 mothers have been killed by Israel each day since October 7th, nearly 2 mothers every hour.
Sources: OHCHR, CNN, OCHAOPT, Al Jazeera
Image by Paul Normandia of Red Sun Press
‘Not Implausible’ – The Lancet Estimates Gaza Death Toll Could Be 186,000 or More
“Even if the conflict ends immediately, there will continue to be many indirect deaths in the coming months and years from causes such as reproductive, communicable, and non-communicable diseases.”
The death toll in the besieged Gaza Strip could be as high as 186,000 or even more, according to the leading medical journal The Lancet.
“Applying a conservative estimate of four indirect deaths per one direct death to the 37 396 deaths reported, it is not implausible to estimate that up to 186 000 or even more deaths could be attributable to the current conflict in Gaza,” the peer-reviewed journal stated in a report published on July 5.
It said that the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs had reported that the Gaza Health Ministry had, by June 19, recorded 37,396 people killed since Israel’s military assault on the enclave began on October 7.
Read the article here.
Israel continues to carry out massacres against Palestinian civilians in Gaza.(Photo: Mahmoud Ajjour, Palestine Chronicle)
Humanitarian Situation Update #186 West Bank. July 3
Key Highlights
Israeli authorities approve plan to “legalize” five settlement outposts unauthorized under Israeli law; settlers from those outposts have carried out 27 attacks against Palestinians in 2024.
Since 7 October, OCHA has recorded 28 incidents of airstrikes, during which 77 Palestinians, including 14 children, have been killed in the West Bank, including two during the reporting period.
At least 200 houses sustained damage during a recent operation by Israeli forces in Nur Sham Refugee Camp in Tulkarm, a UN assessment finds.
Read the full report: Humanitarian Situation Update #186 West Bank
A residential area where infrastructure was heavily damaged in the Jenin Refugee Camp following an operation carried out by Israeli forces. Photo by UNICEF-SoP/2024/Alaa Badarneh, 25 May 2024
