The United Nations (UN) considers that the figures published by the Ministry of Health of the Gaza Strip, controlled by Hamas, on deaths and injuries in the current confrontation with Israel “are fundamentally correct.”
The consideration was advanced this Thursday by Stéphane Dujarric, spokesperson for the UN Secretary General, António Guterres.
Israel has frequently criticized these figures, considering them exaggerated, which was already supported by US President Joe Biden, who on October 27 said that he “did not trust the figures that the Palestinians are using.”
Israel’s ambassador to the UN, Gilad Erdan, has also complained that the UN and its agencies take Hamas’ figures “as the word of God”, ignoring those provided by his government.
However, UN agencies present in the Gaza Strip emphasize that, in this and previous conflicts, the information provided by the authorities in the Gaza Strip can be trusted.
This Thursday, Dujarric made it clear again: “We have seen that fundamentally (those numbers) are correct.”
Israel’s military operations in the Gaza Strip, initiated after the Hamas attacks, which caused 1,200 deaths in Israeli territory on October 7, have already caused the death of more than 15,000 people and the forced displacement of 1.7 million of Palestinians.
Source: TSF
