The World Health Organization (WHO) said this Tuesday that the Palestinian deaths in the Gaza war are more than 35,000 and not half as many as Israel now maintains. and that of these victims, some 24,000 have been completely identified, 11,000 are in the process of being identified.
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To these fatalities we must add An estimated 8,000 bodies are under the rubble.
The total number has not changed and 60% of those victims have been women and children
“The total figure has not changed and 60% of those victims have been women and children,” said the organization’s spokesman, Christian Lindmeier, when asked about Israel’s claims that the United Nations has practically halved the number of women and children killed in Israeli attacks.
“Now the Gaza Ministry of Health goes further and identifies each body, each death, names these people and informs the families,” he commented.
In the Al Nasser hospital (southern Gaza) 283 bodies could be recovered.
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Lindmeier explained that the identification and registration of dead people is carried out in medical facilities or morgues, and “does not include those who are in mass graves, under destroyed buildings or (who died) in areas that are out of reach (of the relief teams) due to the intensity of the conflict.
To these figures are added the almost 79,000 Gazans injured recorded since last October 7, when Hamas attacked Israel and caused 1,200 civilian deaths.
Palestinians carry the bodies of their relatives killed in the bombings.
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450,000 displaced in one week
This, added to the new blocking the entry of humanitarian aid, Levels of malnutrition and disease are rapidly increasing, he added.
Many Palestinians already displaced from the north now fear returning to unsafe places.
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The blockade on the entry of foreign aid, following Israel’s closure of the only two border crossings through which humanitarian convoys entered, has reversed the scant progress made in nutrition, amid an alarming rate of malnutrition. between children.
The blockade on the entry of foreign aid (…) has reversed the limited progress made in nutrition
Under these circumstances, the risk of epidemic outbreaks among a weakened population is very high.
Until the beginning of the month they had already documented more than 415,700 diarrheal diseases and more than 61,000 cases of acute jaundice syndrome, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
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Children are among the largest victims in Gaza.
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Attacks on Gaza continue
Since Tuesday night, security forces began attacks against militiamen and infrastructure in the center of the Yabalia campas detailed yesterday by the military spokesman, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, and more than 80 armed men have been killed since Sunday.
Israel occupied this refugee camp on Saturday night, one of the first places assaulted last October with the start of the offensive and which the troops have punished the most.
According to Hagari, more than 150 armed men have died also in the northern neighborhood of Zeitun, in Gaza City, where Israel began a new ground offensive for the third time last week, after Hamas militants managed to regroup.
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In the last day, Israeli aviation attacked more than 100 Hamas military targets throughout the Gaza Strip, while its ground troops intensify their military offensive both in Rafah, in the south of the enclave, and in the Jabalia refugee camp, in the North. The Army indicated that it continues its operations “against terrorist targets in the eastern area of ​​Rafah” and on the Palestinian side of the crossing that connects with Egypt, although eyewitnesses stated Tuesday morning that Israeli tanks have already penetrated neighborhoods in the western half. from the city, such as Geneina, Salem and Brazil. EFE/Israel Army***EDITORIAL USE ONLY/ONLY AVAILABLE TO ILLUSTRATE THE ACCOMPANYING NEWS (MANDATORY CREDIT)***
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