[News] Gaza officials release 649-page document naming over 34, 000 Palestinians killed by Israel

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 Gaza officials release 649-page document naming over 34,000 Palestinians
killed by Israel

The names of babies under the age of one slaughtered by Israel fills the
first 14 pages of the Ministry of Health document

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SEP 16, 2024 -
https://thecradle.co/articles/gaza-officials-release-649-page-document-naming-over-34000-palestinians-killed-by-israel
The bodies of Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes are buried in a mass
grave in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, November 22. (Photo
credti: REUTERS/Mohammed Salem)

The Ministry of Health in Gaza released a shocking 649-page document on 16
September, providing the name, age, gender, and ID number of tens of
thousands of people killed by Israel during 11 months of its genocide of
Palestinians.

In the chaos of war, the ministry has managed to document the personal
details of over 34,000 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces, out of a
total of at least 42,206 killed as of 31 August.

*The* *New Arab* notes
<https://www.newarab.com/news/tragic-649-page-document-names-every-palestinian-killed-gaza>
that names of just the babies killed under the age of one fill the first 14
pages of the document.

The final 11 pages contain the names of people aged 77 to 101, all of whom
were born before the State of Israel was established on stolen Palestinian
land in 1948.

The ministry reported that two-thirds of Palestinians killed in the Gaza
war were women, children, and elderly people.

The statistics show that 11,355 children have been killed so far, a third
of the total deaths.

It also states that 13,737 men have been killed, around 40 percent of the
total death toll, the majority of them aged between 18 and 30.

Some of these are fighters from Hamas and other Palestinian resistance
groups, while many others are unarmed civilian men.

The ministry said it had recorded the names and identities of 67,433 people
who have been injured during the relentless Israeli airstrikes and ground
operations.

The actual number of injured and wounded is likely far higher, with many
bodies remaining under the rubble of homes and buildings destroyed by
Israeli strikes.

Indirect deaths from the war, including from disease and hunger, are also
not included and could reach into the hundreds of thousands over time.

In July, a report from the UK medical journal *The Lancet *estimated
<https://thecradle.co/articles-id/25821> Israel's assault on Gaza could
lead to between 149,000 and 598,000 Palestinian deaths were it to have
ended at the time of publishing in July.

The journal published a research correspondence between physicians and
public health experts on the difficulty of accounting for the number of
those killed by Israel's war on Gaza, highlighting that both direct and
indirect deaths should be considered.

Regarding the Ministry of Health report, *The* *New Arab *adds that
“October was the deadliest month for Palestinian children and women
according to the ministry, while the months from March to August were the
deadliest for men.”

Israeli bombing has flattened large swathes of Gaza, with Palestinians
being targeted in homes, apartment buildings, UN shelters, schools,
mosques, churches, and hospitals.

Israeli forces have also demolished massive residential areas to make room
for buffer zones along the Gaza–Israel border and to create secure routes
along the Gaza–Egypt border and Netzarim corridor, which bisects Gaza in
two.

Israeli ministers Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich and their supporters
say they wish to flatten Gaza and expel its 2.3 million Palestinian
residents to make way for new Jewish settlements in the enclave.
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