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UN says women and children at least 56 percent of Gaza war dead

AFP
Wednesday, May 15, 2024

OCCUPIED-AL-QUDS: Women and children make up at least 56 percent of the thousands killed in the Gaza war, the UN said on Tuesday, amid controversy over the toll based on numbers from the health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza.

The ministry said on Tuesday that at least 35,173 people have been killed in the territory due to Israeli military operations since the war erupted.

The ministry said that as of April 30 it had fully identified nearly 25,000 of those killed, with identification elements missing for the remainder of the nearly 10,000 others who had died.