Gaza war: UN defends casualty tally amid Israeli anger

[Pelican Press 0]

Gaza war: UN defends casualty tally amid ******** anger

Speaking to the BBC’s Today programme, Mr Griffiths said: “Gaza is a war zone and the collection of data and statistics, while admirable and necessary, is first of all secondary to actually delivering some aid and, secondly, very difficult in cases of insecurity and *********.

“So… be realistic, please, about what’s possible in the middle of what we’re seeing in Gaza. I think we are very cautious about these figures and I think it’s not right to blame the messenger who is trying to get truth out of what is a very, very complicated situation.”

At the start of the war last October, the ******-run health ministry only reported deaths for which details had been registered in hospitals, whereas from November, the GMO included an additional category of deaths recorded in “reliable media reports”.

On 6 May, OCHA reported 34,735 deaths – of which there were more than 9,500 women and more than 14,500 children, citing the GMO as its source.

Then two days later, the UN released a further report, switching its sourcing to the health ministry.

The result of this was that although the overall recorded ****** toll was almost unchanged (34,844), the number of registered deaths of women (4.959) and children (7,797) as of 30 April had both fallen significantly.

This difference was because those individuals with incomplete information were not included in the demographic breakdown.

Reacting to the change in the official UN estimates, ******** Foreign Minister ******* Katz called on the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to step down.

“The miraculous resurrection of the ***** in Gaza. The UN had reduced its estimate of women and children ******* in Gaza by 50% and claims that it relied on data from the ****** Ministry of Health,” Mr Katz wrote in a post on X on Monday.

“Anyone who relies on fake data from a ********** organisation in order to promote blood libels against ******* is antisemitic and supports terrorism. @antonioguterres, resign!”

******* began its military campaign in the Gaza Strip in the wake of ******’s attacks on 7 October, in which 1,200 people – mostly civilians – were *******, and 252 others were taken ********.

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