The United Nations clarified on Monday that the overall number of fatalities in Gaza, reported by the Ministry of Health, remains at more than 35,000 since the conflict between Israel and Hamas began on October 7. This clarification follows a report by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on May 8, which revised the data on Palestinian casualties in the war.
The UN's report reduced the number of women and children believed to have been killed by nearly half. This adjustment was made because the UN is now relying on fully documented information, such as names and other identifying details, rather than total numbers. The Ministry of Health counts bodies that arrive at hospitals in the overall death toll.
