The youngest victim is a day old. The eldest is a 97-year-old woman
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights said on Friday that nearly 70 percent of the victims of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip it investigated were women and children, condemning what it described as a “systematic violation” of basic principles of international humanitarian law.
The UN census covers the first 7 months of the war on the Gaza Strip, which has been going on for more than a year, with the number of casualties, verified by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) reaching 8,119 people, far less than the numbers provided by the Palestinian health authorities and exceeding 43,000 since October 7, 2023.
But the details provided by the UN in a statement accompanying a 32-page report on the ages and gender of those killed are consistent with the Palestinian assertion that women and children make up a large proportion of victims, citing “a systematic violation of fundamental principles of international humanitarian law, including distinction and proportionality.”
