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Nearly 70 percent of deaths in Gaza are women and children: UN

A Palestinian girl reacts as bodies are transported to the courtyard of the al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City following an Israeli strike that hit a school-turned-shelter in the Shati refugee camp, on November 7, 2024 [Omar al-Qattaa/AFP]

United Nations human rights chief Volker Turk has condemned Israel’s “apparent indifference” to the killing of civilians in Gaza, after a new report from his agency showed that nearly 70 percent of verified deaths were of women and children.

The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) published the report on Friday, having verified 8,119 of the more than 34,500 people reportedly killed during the first six months of Israel’s war in Gaza, finding that a high proportion were women and children – the youngest just one day old.

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