Gaza’s ministry of health released a chilling 649-page document on Sunday, detailing the name, age, gender, and ID number of every Palestinian killed by Israel in the enclave over the past 11 months.
The document contains the details of 34,000 Palestinians out of around 42,206 killed since the start of Israel’s war on 7 October up to 31 August, amid ‘genocide denial’ from some people in Israel and the West.
The first 14 pages of the document feature the names of babies under one, while the last 11 pages contain the names of people aged 77 to 101 – all born before the State of Israel was established.
The ministry also clarified that 60 percent of those killed in the Gaza war – which now stands at 41,226 Palestinians – were women, children, and elderly people, while the vast majority of the rest will likely be unarmed, civilian men.
“The fact that the first 14 pages of the document are all babies under a year old, and thousands of children, women and the elderly killed among others, shows us the real Israeli intention to target every segment of society in their genocidal war” Zaid Amali, the public discourse and communications director at Miftah human rights organisation told The New Arab.
“There has been vile smear campaigns from the beginning of the genocide doubting the numbers and statistics provided by the ministry of health, which constitute genocide denial. This is part of the dehumanisation that Palestinians constantly face,” he added.
According to Amali, the numbers provided by the ministry of health are “conservative” and only include those who were confirmed as reaching hospitals, however there are still hundreds, if not thousands, missing under the rubble or are undocumented.
He also said those who have been killed indirectly during the war on the enclave, such as due to chronic illnesses amid a lack of treatment, have not been accounted for.
A breakdown of statistics states that 11,355 children have been killed so far, equating to a third of the death toll.
It also states that 13,737 men have been killed, around 40 percent of the total death toll, the majority of them aged between 18-30.
Only 15 hospitals in Gaza – home to around 2.3 million people – are partially operational, another 23 are fully out of service due to Israeli bombing, whilst at least 130 ambulances have also been damaged since the start of the war.
The ministry said it has recorded the names and identities of 67,433 people who have been wounded in Israeli assaults, although the actual number of people wounded – as with the death toll – is thought to be much higher.
October was the deadliest month for Palestinian children and women according to the ministry, while the months from March to August were the deadliest for men.
Israel’s war on Gaza has leveled entire neighbourhoods and plunged Gaza into a deep humanitarian crisis, where disease and hunger are rampant.
Israeli bombing has left no parts of Gaza untouched, with Palestinians being targeted in UN shelters, schools, and hospitals.
On 15 October, the Palestinian ministry of health issued a statement saying that 47 families, made up of over 500 civilians, had been wiped from the civil registry based on hospital reports in Gaza.
“There are good reasons to believe that the number could actually be higher,” Agnès Callamard, Amnesty International’s Secretary General, told Time.
Source: The News Arabs