But as the fighting has continued, the quality of the overall MoH death count has dipped. Most hospitals can no longer collect data. In mid-November, the MoH began to add deaths from media reports to the hospital death count (see chart). This is a routine way to estimate deaths during ...
Israel blames Hamas for the high civilian death toll during its intense air and ground campaign, citing the group's use of crowded residential areas for military purposes. Israel declared war after Hamas militants stormed across its border and killed some 1,200 people and kidnapped 240 others. I...
The Palestinian death toll from the war between Israel and Hamas has soared past 25,000, said the Hamas-run Health Ministry in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, while the Israeli government appeared far from achieving its goals of crushing the militant group and freeing more than 100 hostages. Th...
The International Committee of the Red Cross said it was shocked and horrified by the reports. "Hospitals should be sanctuaries to preserve human life, not scenes of death and destruction. No patient should be killed in a hospital bed. No doctors should lose their lives while trying to save ...
Mounting death tolls in Gaza, war could take months - WSJ In spite of its broken command infrastructure, a result of three months of airstrikes and two months of ground operations, Hamas is still able to mount effective guerrilla attacks, the WSJ reported....
In the absence of a ceasefire, the persistent death and destruction in Gaza during Ramadan, the Islamic calendar's holiest period, could profoundly impact Muslims across the region, said Muhaisen. Israeli attacks during Ramadan, he said, further fuel anger among Arabs, who are already incensed ...
As the death count in the Israel-Hamas war climbs, medical staff are using refrigerated containers to hold the bodies of Israeli citizens killed during the recent attacks by Hamas. These photos were taken during a tour of the Ramla, Israel, facility, which is working to identify the deceased...
Living conditions are particularly "appalling" for more than 155,000 pregnant or lactating women in the enclave, who face extreme difficulty in accessing water and health facilities, the agency said. Gaza health authorities said on Friday that the death toll from the "Israeli incursion" on Gaza ...
Gaza’s Health Ministry says over 40,000 Palestinians have been killed in the 10-month-old Israel-Hamas war.
because thousands of bodies are still buried under rubble or in areas that medics cannot access. The latest war has been by far the deadliest round of fighting between Israel and Hamas, with the death toll now amounting to roughly 2% of Gaza’s entire prewar population of ab...