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<h1 class="gmail-single_title">Euro-Med: 9 out of 10 of those killed in Gaza are civilians</h1>
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<p>GENEVA, (PIC)</p>
<p>The Israeli army’s claim that every killed armed individual or
faction member has resulted in the loss of two civilian lives is false,
said Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor on the 60th day of Israel’s ongoing
genocide campaign in the Gaza Strip.</p>
<p>According to preliminary statistics provided by Euro-Med Monitor,
based on field documentation, at least nine out of 10 Palestinian deaths
resulting from Israeli attacks are in fact civilian deaths.</p>
<p>The death toll of Palestinians had risen to 21,022 since the start of
the war on the Gaza Strip—a number that includes those missing under
the rubble whose chances of survival have almost completely
diminished—including 8,312 children and 4,270 women. It should be noted
that 19,660 of the dead are civilians. According to the human rights
group, these figures clearly refute the Israeli claim, as 60% of the
dead are women and children. Forty percent of the dead are men, the
majority of whom (65%) were civilians and elderly.</p>
<p>Euro-Med Monitor noted that these male civilian victims include those
who were employed by the United Nations and international
organizations; those who were affiliated with the Palestinian Authority;
people with special needs; and those who had obtained Israeli security
permits in order to work in Israel.</p>
<p>The deaths also include 280 medical personnel, 26 rescue workers, 112
United Nations staff, and 77 journalists and media professionals.</p>
<p>The Geneva-based rights organization indicated that its preliminary
statistics on civilian casualties support the figures put out by the
United Nations and its specialized organizations, which show that about
70% of those killed in Israel’s genocidal war on the Gaza Strip have
been women, children, and elderly people.</p>
<p>These figures were presented by the World Health Organization, the
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
(OCHA), and the United Nations Population Fund, while UN
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said weeks ago that Gaza had become a
“cemetery for children.”.</p>
<p>Israel is required by international humanitarian law and the
convention on the laws of war to protect civilians and not attack them
for any reason, stated Euro-Med Monitor. This runs counter to its
enlarging the authority granted to its army to bomb non-military targets
and removing limitations pertaining to anticipated civilian casualties.</p>
<p>The Israeli army’s official statements, which have declared the start
of large-scale assassination operations against those it describes as
“wanted,” have not included more than 22 reported targets and have
expressed knowledge that each targeting has caused a huge toll of
victims.</p>
<p>In comparison to its previous military operations in the Gaza Strip,
Israel’s bombing of the region is dramatically more severe. The ongoing
bombing includes non-military targets such as homes, public buildings,
and main infrastructure, all with the intention of seriously harming
civil society.</p>
<p>Israel, which has tightly besieged the Gaza Strip since 2006, has
extensive intelligence files on the vast majority of potential targets
in Gaza, including homes, allowing it to stipulate the number of
civilians likely to be killed in an attack on a specific target. Army
intelligence units are aware of the figure in advance, having calculated
it themselves and knowing roughly how many civilians will likely be
killed or injured just before the attack takes place. However, they
underestimate the number of civilian lives that will be lost and treat
them as “collateral damage.”</p>
<p>Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor concluded that the rate of civilian
deaths in Israel’s war of extermination raging in the Gaza Strip is the
highest in conflict areas worldwide in the 21st century and that it
seriously violates the principles of human rights and international
humanitarian law, which state that the protection of civilians comes
first and foremost.</p>
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