On Monday, the UN said that the number of Palestinians killed by Israel in Gaza since October 7 hasn’t changed, a figure that has surpassed 35,000.
UN spokesman Farhan Haq made the clarification after the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) published figures from Gaza’s Health Ministry that showed the number of Palestinians killed who have been fully identified, which, as of April 30, was 24,686 out of 34,622 total fatalities.
Out of the 24,686 fully identified Palestinians, there were 7,797 children, 4,959 women, 1,924 elderly, and 10,006 men. The figures were published by the OCHA on May 8. Two days earlier, the OCHA published figures that used estimates from Gaza’s Media Office that said 34,735 Palestinians had been killed, including over 14,500 children and 9,500 women.
The discrepancy led to claims that the UN had “halved” the number of women and children killed in Gaza, but Haq clarified the overall death toll hasn’t changed and that the latest numbers didn’t take into account the roughly 10,000 dead Palestinians who haven’t been fully identified.
“There’s about another 10,000 plus bodies who are still have to be fully identified. And so then the details of those which of those are children, which of those are women that will be reestablished once the full identification process is complete,” Haq said.
According to CNN, Gaza’s Health Ministry said in its latest report that a total of 15,103 children and 9,961 women have been killed in Gaza since October 7.
Haq added that the UN hasn’t been able to verify the figures from Gaza’s Health Ministry but noted their numbers have been historically accurate, something that’s been acknowledged by US and Israeli officials. The Hebrew-language news site Local Call reported in January that the Israeli military determined the figures were reliable and used them to estimate how many civilians they’ve killed.
Two Palestinian Health Ministry officials told CNN that the total number of deaths also does not include another 10,000 people who are missing and presumed dead under the rubble.
Too late, UN. The damage is done. Practically every MSM site has already pushed the wrong take on the figures and all the genocide supporters are pushing it on every social media platform.
Epic fuckup, UN. No surprise there.
Analysis of popular music in Israel today advocating genocide
https://twitter.com/ajplus/status/1789888301325021670
To be fair, going to a MSM site and expecting factual reporting is like eating nothing but big Macs an french fries and then wondering why you have high blood pressure.
I like how the MSM sites proclaiming this as “proof” that Israel is not genocidal are the same ones braying about “40 beheaded babies” 6 months about, despite the fact that exactly 2 infants (which is still 2 too many) were killed on October 7 https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.timesofisrael.com/14-kids-under-10-25-people-over-80-up-to-date-breakdown-of-oct-7-victims-we-know-about/amp/. Then again anyone stupid enough to listen to mainstream media in 2024 is pretty much beyond hope.
It’s gone up, they are still bombing civilians.
US Presidential candidate Cornel West talks about US complicity in regards to the Israeli genocide against the Palestinians.
It ain’t just Netanyahu.
Indeed it’s not – just like it ain’t just Biden or Trump but it’s who and what they really represent and in that light Cornel West makes a difference that is as contrasting as light and day.
Oct 7 has delayed Netanyahu’s Bribery and corruption trial while the Russians have just arrested a high ranking defense official for taking bribes.
In the US -as you are likely aware – bribery is legal and the MIC is complicit by providing kickbacks to people in key positions.
Sorry, I just got put off with his initial comment, “Netanyahu is like Trump”. I can’t stand Trump and I detest Netanyahu, but when you start from there, it sounds like every Dem bot who thinks/says that the country was great until Trump, there was no corruption or authoritarianism, and Israel was peaceful and just, until Bibi.
Maybe he goes on to explain further, but for a while, prior to this interview, he almost sounded like he was campaigning for Biden. Maybe when I’m in a less agitated state, I’ll listen further.
It has nothing to do with you.
Anti war / anti empire presidential candidates are rare – they’re not provided with the exposure that duopoly candidates are guaranteed to enjoy.
Cornel West is a breath of fresh air ideologically however perhaps you recall that Jimmy Dore picked up on the fact that he’s being nice to his political opposites when he should have demolished them and perhaps that’s not in him.
I think it’s also because he wants to maintain his station in life. Once they started digging dirt on him, he mostly disappeared.
He’s not actually running.
Did they find something and they dropped out, or are they simply not trying?
According to his website he’s running for the 2024 US Presidential election.
Talk about digging dirt…the Epstein files have remained a closely guarded secret imo they ought to be released so we might find out who might still be blackmailed – failing that – would it be unfair to assume that they’re still being used in order to manipulate individuals in high office?
https://www.cornelwest2024.com/
They went after him about child support arrears and funding from a far right donor.
But he kept switching parties and last I looked he was only on the ballot in 3 states.
Thanks.
They’re afraid of him so they dug around and found something and blew it way out of proportion – in the endwhat they found is insignificant compared to what’s been revealed about Biden and Trump and the rest of them
Of course.
But this is what they do. In 2016, Sanders’ wife was being investigated by the FBI. It seemed like that ended when the primaries were handed to Clinton. And there was the Russiagate hoax that destroyed Carter Page’s life, to investigate Trump, and then that went on for years. Mueller came up empty handed, but you’d never know it based on people’s beliefs.
‘A lie is halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on.’
The sanctity of all life, should not be shrouded in a blanket of fog but rather the light of the love of all of humanity, can help show us the way. The correct way.
I’m just trying to imagine what we’d be subjected to from the Fake News if it were 15,000 Ukrainian children and babies slaughtered by Russian 2,000 lb bombs dropped on Kiev. You think the regime would have ordered a crack-down on anti-Russian protests across the US because it was creating “anti-Russianism”?
Does the figures include Hamas fighters or just pure civilians? And how does one know the difference between a dead Hamas fighter and a dead civilian? Once a Hamas fighter is killed and his gun is removed, he looks like a civilian.
Israeli’s are destroying aid meant for starving Palestinians.
All aid for Israel should be cancelled immediately.