UN spokesperson: Gaza death toll ‘remains unchanged’

what I can tell you is this the overall number of fatalities that's been tallied by the Ministry of Health in Gaza which is our counterpart on dealing with uh the the death tolls that number remains unchanged and it's at more than 35,000 people since the uh since October 7th what's changed is the Ministry of Health and Gaza has updated the breakdown of fatalities for whom full details have been documented so what they recently published was that they uh gave figures for 24686 out of 300 uh out of 34622 overall fatalities recorded in Gaza and those 24686 people are the ones for whom full details have been documented in other words people who have been fully identified those out of those then out of that smaller number that subset of identified bodies you have 779 7 children 4,959 women 1,924 elderly and 10,6 men and the Ministry of Health uh says that the documentation process of fully identifying details of the casualties is ongoing uh meanwhile as as you can see if you do the math that there's about another 10,000 plus bodies who 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 we our teams in Gaza are ident unable to identif un independently verify these figures given the situation on the ground and the continuing combat and the sheer number of fatalities and so we uh cite the Ministry of Health as the source for our figures and do you have any reason to believe that the Ministry of Health numbers are incorrect based on the years that the UN has worked with the Ministry of Health of Gaza uh unfortunately we have the sad experience of coordinating with the Ministry of Health on casualty figures every few years for uh large C mass casualty incidents in Gaza and in past uh Past Times uh their figures have proven to be generally accurate

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Published: Tue May 14 2024