Women and children account for nearly 70 per cent of all Palestinian deaths in Gaza verified by the UN human rights office (OHCHR), which has accused Israel of failing “to comply with the fundamental principles of humanitarian law”.
The UN rights office has so far verified the deaths of 8,119 Palestinians in Gaza, including 2,036 women and 3,588 children over the first seven months of the war, triggered after Hamas killed around 1,200 people and took a further 250 hostage in its cross-border attack on Israel on 7 October.
