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The UN Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) published today a grim report on the ongoing humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza, deploring that 70% of the victims of the unfolding Israeli genocide are women and children.
While the report only confirms 8,119 victims out of the more than 34,500 victims reportedly killed during the first six months of the Israeli war on Gaza, it does confirm that 70% of those killed were women and children.
Reporting on the UN Commissioner’s distressing findings, AlJazeera indicated that the youngest of the ongoing victims were just one day old.
UN human rights chief Volker Turk reiterated his concerns about the situation following the report, condemning Israeli “apparent indifference” to the killing of Gazzans.
“This report presents grave concerns regarding the human rights situation in occupied Gaza since the last report of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to the UN Human Rights Council, and covers a period of six months, from 1 November 2023, when the last Human Rights Council report covered the events on the ground,1 up to 30 April 2024,” OHCHR said.
The report shows that the number of killings verified by OHCHR by September of this year reached 8,119 Palestinians in Gaza, including 2,036 women and 3,588 children.
The victims were killed in residential buildings or similar housing, the report found, adding that “out of which 44 per cent were children, 26 per cent women and 30 per cent ment.”
The scope of the brutal and systematic killings of Palestinians highlighted in the UN report align largely with the daily monitoring of Israeli violence by the Gaza-based health ministry.
In its latest assessment to date, the ministry said the number of Palestinians killed since the start of Israel’s genocidal campaign has reached 43,469.
