Proportion of women, children killed in Gaza plummets as war continues

The proportion of Palestinian women and children being killed in the Israel-Hamas war appears to have declined sharply, an Associated Press analysis of Gaza Health Ministry data has found, a trend that both coincides with Israel’s changing battlefield tactics and contradicts the ministry’s own public statements.

Dr. Moatasem Salah, director of Hamas’s health ministry’s emergency center, took issue with assertions that Hamas was deliberately manipulating the data. He insisted that 70% of those killed have been women and children and said the overall death toll is much higher than what has been reported as many bodies were undiscovered.

Despite Salah’s assertions, and the World Health’s Organization defense of the figures only weeks ago, the UN halved the number of women and children believed to have been killed in Gaza in May.

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Article URL : https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-805372