Children and women make up about 70 percent of the more than 8,300 Palestinian civilian victims of the war between Israel and the Islamist group Hamas reported as of Monday, the UN announced Tuesday.
The figures include 3,747 children and 2,062 women among the fatalities, according to the daily report of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, known by its acronym in English OCHA.
On the Israeli side, OCHA reported more than 1,400 deaths, with 30 children among the 1,135 victims already identified, mostly as a result of the attack that Hamas carried out on Israeli territory on October 7.
The report also includes 21,048 injured on the Palestinian side and 5,431 in Israel, as well as 1.4 million displaced people in the Gaza Strip.
The Palestinian victims were the result of the Israeli response to the Hamas attack, especially with almost incessant bombings against the Gaza Strip.
Located between Israel, Egypt and the Mediterranean Sea, the Gaza Strip is around 360 square kilometers and has 2.3 million inhabitants.
Hamas, considered a terrorist organization by Israel, the United States and the European Union, has controlled Gaza since 2007, when it expelled the Fatah party, which governs the West Bank, from the territory.
In the report, the UN highlights that, until now, it “has not been able to present independent, complete and verified figures on the number of victims.”
“The current figures have been provided by the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza and Israeli authorities and await further verification,” OCHA said.
The UN structure also noted that 26 trucks of humanitarian aid entered Gaza on Monday through Rafah, the border post with Egypt.
He considered that the aid is still far below the needs given the seriousness of the situation, despite having registered an increase in the amount entering Gaza in the last two days, as reported by the Spanish agency EFE.
The UN also said 13 hospitals remained operational in the north and south of the Gaza Strip on Monday, the day water supplies were cut off again for unknown reasons.
A pipeline carrying water from Israel to the center of the Palestinian territory had not been repaired as of Monday, he added.
Source: TSF
