International ‘Almost unparalleled suffering’ in Gaza as UN says nearly 70% of those killed are women and children

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Head of the Norwegian Refugee Council calls for peace process to begin as new figures reveal civilians have borne the brunt of the war

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Nearly 70% of the people killed in the war in Gaza are women and children, according to a UN analysis of verified deaths that highlights the heavy civilian toll of the conflict.

In a new report, the most detailed analysis of its kind yet, the UN human rights office said it had verified 8,119 of those killed during the first six months of the war in Gaza. Of the fatalities, 3,588 were children and 2,036 were women. The youngest victim was a one-day-old boy and the oldest was a 97-year-old woman.


The number marks deaths verified so far and is therefore lower than the figure of 43,000 deaths provided by Palestinian health authorities for the 13-month conflict, but backs the assertion that women and children represent a large proportion of those killed.

The new figures came as the secretary general of the Norwegian Refugee Council, Jan Egeland, said people had been pushed “beyond breaking point” with families, widows and children enduring “almost unparalleled suffering”.

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The UN said the figures indicated “a systematic violation of the fundamental principles of international humanitarian law”.

Of the verified figures, 7,607 were killed in residential buildings or similar housing, out of which 44% were children, 26% women and 30% men, said the report released on Friday.

Children aged five to nine represent the single biggest age category, followed by those aged 10-14, and then those aged up to and including four.

Civilians have borne the brunt of the attacks in Gaza, said the report, including through the initial siege by Israeli forces, as well as repeated mass displacement, the Israeli government’s failure to allow in humanitarian aid, and continual bombing. The report added that in 88% of cases, five or more people were killed in the same attack, pointing to the Israeli military’s use of weapons with impacts across a wide area, although it said some fatalities may have been the result of errant projectiles from Palestinian armed groups.

This has caused unprecedented levels of killing, death, injury, starvation, illness and disease, according to the report, which said many families had been killed together, often in their homes, in Israeli strikes on residential buildings. The UN said it had verified 484 families that had lost between five and more than 30 members.

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The killing of whole families together in their places of shelter adds to concerns over breaches of international humanitarian law, the report said.

The two families with the highest verified number of deaths were the Al Najjar family, with 138 members killed (in 18 incidents), including 35 women and 62 children, and the Al Astal family, with 94 members killed (in eight incidents), including 33 women and 45 children.

The UN human rights chief, Volker Türk, said: “Our monitoring indicates that this unprecedented level of killing and injury of civilians is a direct consequence of the failure to comply with fundamental principles of international humanitarian law – namely the principles of distinction, proportionality and precautions in attack. Tragically, these documented patterns of violations continue unabated, over one year after the start of the war.”

Israel’s diplomatic mission to the UN in Geneva said it categorically rejected the report. “Once again, OHCHR fails to accurately reflect the realities on the ground, and disregards the extensive role of Hamas and other terrorist organisations in deliberately causing civilian harm in Gaza,” it said, referring to the Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights.

Israel’s military, which began its offensive in response to the attack on 7 October 2023 in which Hamas fighters killed about 1,200 people in southern Israel and seized more than 250 hostages, says it takes care to avoid harming civilians in Gaza.

The report also highlighted that Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups had attacked and killed Israeli and foreign civilians, committed sexual violence, and taken hostages. These acts could amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, it added.

During a visit to Gaza,Egeland said he had seen “scene after scene of absolute despair”, with families torn apart and unable to bury relatives who had died. He said that Israel, with western-supplied arms, had “rendered the densely populated area uninhabitable”.

“This is in no way a lawful response, a targeted operation of ‘self-defence’ to dismantle armed groups, or warfare consistent with humanitarian law,” he said. “The families, widows and children I have spoken to are enduring suffering almost unparalleled to anywhere in recent history. There is no possible justification for continued war and destruction.”

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Nearly 2 million people have been internally displaced in Gaza, according to the latest estimates from the UN relief agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa), and the population faces widespread shortages of food, water and medicine.

Families are still forced to move from one area to another. Areas designated by Israeli forces for evacuation and forcible relocation now cover 80% of Gaza. Palestinians are thus restricted to 20% of the strip and an Israeli brigadier general said this week that there was no intention of allowing people to return to their homes. Experts in humanitarian law have said that such actions amount to the war crime of forcible transfer.

In northern Gaza, a month-long renewed offensive and tightened siege has led to desperate conditions, with an estimated 100,000 people completely cut off from humanitarian aid.

The UN has condemned the “unlawful interference with humanitarian assistance and orders that are leading to forced displacement”.

Most aid remains blocked from leaving crossing points due to insecurity, active hostilities and widespread destruction. An average of 36 trucks a day crossed into Gaza in October, marking the lowest rate for a year.

Egeland, a humanitarian leader, former foreign minister and diplomat in Norway, said he witnessed “the catastrophic impact of strangled aid flows”; adding that people had gone for days without food and drinking water was nowhere to be found.

“There has not been a single week since the start of this war when sufficient aid was delivered in Gaza,” he said.

Last week, Israel’s parliament passed bills banning Unrwa from operating in Israel and the Palestinian territories, designating it a terror organisation, and cutting all ties between the UN agency and the Israeli government.

Egeland said the situation in Gaza was “deadly” for all Palestinians, aid workers and journalists. He said that to prevent tens of thousands of lives being lost, there should be an immediate ceasefire, the release of hostages and the start of a peace process.

“Those in power on all sides act with impunity, while millions across Gaza and the region pay a terrible price,” he said. “Humanitarians can speak out on what we are seeing, but only those in power can end this nightmare.”


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https://www.theguardian.com/global-...-council-aid-ceasefire-hostages-peace-process
 
I can't wait to hear from all the sherdog hostage negotiators how you're supposed to kill the human shields, because that's the secret to counter-insurgencies.
 
Maybe after the war is over the Pals will recognize that terrorism is not a functional way of life.
 
The key is to give the terrorists hugs.
They key is a carrot and stick approach, which is how most insurgencies or nationalist conflicts are ended. Israel appears to have forgotten about the carrot part. Don't be a dumbass and act like the only two options are hug everyone and kill everyone lol.
Maybe after the war is over the Pals will recognize that terrorism is not a functional way of life.
Or we end up with even more extremist movements, a la Lebanon after defeating the PLO. I wonder what happened after that...
 
If only the population didn't full on supported terrorists attacks perpetuated by the people they cheered. In the name of killing "infidels" they're ready to sacrifice everyone, sad.
 
They key is a carrot and stick approach, which is how most insurgencies or nationalist conflicts are ended. Israel appears to have forgotten about the carrot part. Don't be a dumbass and act like the only two options are hug everyone and kill everyone lol.

Or we end up with even more extremist movements, a la Lebanon after defeating the PLO. I wonder what happened after that...
Good thing they aren’t killing everyone.

With your playbook, Hamas is still ruling Gaza.
 
Good thing they aren’t killing everyone.

With your playbook, Hamas is still ruling Gaza.
And with your playbook...we quite possibly get an even worse successor to Hamas and a new generation that has all the more reason to take up arms. A la the PLO and Hezbollah? Funny how only using a hammer with no plan what's next usually doesn't work out in the long term.
 
And with your playbook...we quite possibly get an even worse successor to Hamas and a new generation that has all the more reason to take up arms. A la the PLO and Hezbollah? Funny how only using a hammer with no plan what's next usually doesn't work out in the long term.
Hamas has been ruling Gaza for almost 20 years now. They’d be ruling indefinitely into the future. After 10/7. That would not be tenable for Israel or the people of Gaza. Regime change was mandatory.
 
Hamas has been ruling Gaza for almost 20 years now. They’d be ruling indefinitely into the future. After 10/7. That would not be tenable for Israel or the people of Gaza. Regime change was mandatory.
And yet, over a year later, and no regime change plan has been presented, let alone a credible one. Occupiers that don't have a plan almost always fail disastrously. I see no reason to think Israel would be an exception to a long list of colonial powers that tried to subdue a local population through force and failed due to lack of popular support or thought to building a productive society.
 
And yet, over a year later, and no regime change plan has been presented, let alone a credible one. Occupiers that don't have a plan almost always fail disastrously. I see no reason to think Israel would be an exception to a long list of colonial powers that tried to subdue a local population through force and failed due to lack of popular support or thought to building a productive society.
lol at “subdue a local population through force”. They are eradicating a terror organization that was the elected governing body of Gaza that controlled everything therein. Including the diversion of resources towards terror networks (and attacks).

The succession plan hasn’t been presented, but regime change is happening. It ain’t gonna be Hamas. Even though in your plan that would be the case.
 
lol at “subdue a local population through force”. They are eradicating a terror organization that was the elected governing body of Gaza that controlled everything therein. Including the diversion of resources towards terror networks (and attacks).
I don't see how ethnic cleansing, blockades, routinely killing civilians for rock throwing and protesting, and a purposeful disregard for civilian life can be described as anything but attempting to Gaza through force. You're literally in a thread discussing the horrific scale of civilian casualties due to this disregard for civilian life.
The succession plan hasn’t been presented, but regime change is happening. It ain’t gonna be Hamas. Even though in your plan that would be the case.
Why hasn't a succession plan been presented? It sounds like Israel doesn't have one, unless you're telling me Bib is taking a page from Trump and has the concepts of a plan but it's just super duper top secret.

Like I said, regime change with no plan or forethought usually fails disastrously.
 
If only the population didn't full on supported terrorists attacks perpetuated by the people they cheered. In the name of killing "infidels" they're ready to sacrifice everyone, sad.
yeah they should have didn't supported that
 
I don't see how ethnic cleansing, blockades, routinely killing civilians for rock throwing and protesting, and a purposeful disregard for civilian life can be described as anything but attempting to Gaza through force. You're literally in a thread discussing the horrific scale of civilian casualties due to this disregard for civilian life.
When did they ethnically cleanse Gaza? They unilaterally withdrew from Gaza.

Should Hamas have been given autonomy in Gaza?

Why hasn't a succession plan been presented? It sounds like Israel doesn't have one, unless you're telling me Bib is taking a page from Trump and has the concepts of a plan but it's just super duper top secret.

Like I said, regime change with no plan or forethought usually fails disastrously.
We’ll see what happens next.
 
A lot of victim blaming going on here lol

Parroting Bin Ladens talking points for some unknown reason

It’s always comical reading these posts because you are in essence advocating for the death of America and justifying terroristic belief systems
 
When did they ethnically cleanse Gaza? They unilaterally withdrew from Gaza.

Should Hamas have been given autonomy in Gaza?
The destruction of productive arable land and constant displacements of the Gazan population are textbook ethnic cleansing, as are the settlements and settler terrorism against Gazans. As far as Hamas, it's autonomy effectively stops at the borders of Gaza, both pre-war and post war. 10/7's mass casualties were more indicative of Israeli security failures rather than Hamas' power. Ideally the push should have been/should be for more democratic or at least productive society in Gaza, but that doesn't happen overnight, even in ideal conditions. And current conditions are not likely to increase the chances of that happening. A low grade detente would have been the best outcome of a list of shitty outcomes in my book. But that ship sailed.
We’ll see what happens next.
So what you're saying is there are known unknowns.
 
The stats i've been seeing point to over 40,000 people killed by Israel. Also an article and video recently highlighted 64 american doctors and nurses who have returned from Gaza, reporting these medical professionals seeing children, each day, with gunshot wounds to their heads.
I think most people in the West literally feel uncomfortable criticizing jews, especially Israeli jews. It's indoctrination that has happened throughout our lives, based on WWII.
 
The destruction of productive arable land and constant displacements of the Gazan population are textbook ethnic cleansing, as are the settlements and settler terrorism against Gazans. As far as Hamas, it's autonomy effectively stops at the borders of Gaza, both pre-war and post war. 10/7's mass casualties were more indicative of Israeli security failures rather than Hamas' power. Ideally the push should have been/should be for more democratic or at least productive society in Gaza, but that doesn't happen overnight, even in ideal conditions. And current conditions are not likely to increase the chances of that happening. A low grade detente would have been the best outcome of a list of shitty outcomes in my book. But that ship sailed.

So what you're saying is there are known unknowns.
Hamas should have had more autonomy and 10/7 was due to Israeli security failure. How fuckin sad.

Constant displacement of gazans? Settlements in Gaza? Settlers against Gaza? Wtf…..
 
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