March 8, 2024 - The UN Secretary-General said on Thursday he was “appalled by the tragic human toll of the conflict in Gaza” where more than 30,000 people have now reportedly been killed and over 70,000 injured.

May 14, 2024 - The United Nations reduced by half the number of women and children estimated to have been killed during Israel's war in Gaza.

May 15, 2024 - Here's a closer look at the United Nations' breakdown of casualties. The overall total of more than 35,000 Palestinians killed since Oct. 7, based on Gaza Health Ministry figures, has not declined.

May 13, 2024 - “The revisions are taken … you know, of course, in the fog of war, it’s difficult to come up with numbers,” a U.N. spokesman told JNS.

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The United Nations is facing scrutiny after lowering its counts of Palestinian women and children killed since Israel began bombing Gaza in its seven-month war against Hamas.

As the Israel-Hamas war rages, international and local monitoring groups in Gaza have been unable to keep up. The only source reporting how many people have been killed in Hamas-ruled Gaza is the Ministry of Health.

May 11, 2024 - The United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) revised its child fatality figure from the Gaza war sharply downward, reporting more than 14,500 deaths...

February 29, 2024 - Gaza's health ministry announced Thursday that 30,035 Palestinians have been killed in the war. A close look at how the ministry counts those killed reveals a system buckling under the weight of war.

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) today released the third edition of its World Wildlife Crime Report, which says that wildlife trafficking has not been substantially reduced despite two decades of concerted action.

Between May 6 and May 8, the UN cut in half its estimates of the number of women and children killed in Gaza. The estimates were based on Hamas numbers and are a reminder that all fatality estimates …

May 14, 2024 - A spokesperson said the health ministry in Gaza is tracking two separate death tolls – an overall death toll and a total number of identified fatalities.

December 9, 2023 - Israeli forces unleashed an aerial and ground blitz against Hamas in Gaza after a cross-border rampage by the enclave's ruling Islamist group on Oct. 7. At least 17,487 Palestinians have been killed since then, according to Gaza Health Ministry figures, while 1,200 people were killed in the ...

January 8, 2024 - From death tolls to destroyed buildings ... fog of war · This article is extracted from our First Edition newsletter. Sign up here ... The situation in Gaza over the last three months has been so chaotic that much of the data available comes with some sort of asterisk: it might be incomplete, or out of date, or drawn from a source that is claimed to be unreliable. But on even the most frequently disputed point – casualty figures from ...

October 9, 2023 - The latest death toll stands at 38,179 Palestinians and 1,139 people killed in Israel since October 7.

News and Press Release in English on occupied Palestinian territory about Protection and Human Rights; published on 22 Mar 2024 by AOAV

May 14, 2024 - Amid social media claims to the contrary, U.N. spokesperson Faran Haq said there had been no change in the number of fatalities.

News and Press Release in English on occupied Palestinian territory and 1 other country about Health, Protection and Human Rights and more; published on 19 Nov 2023 by UN News

5 days ago - In December, Israel's military said it estimated two out of three (66%) of those killed to be civilians. Even the conservative figure of 61 percent is higher than the average civilian death rate in all world conflicts "from the Second World War to the 1990s", according to Yigal Levy. The number of casualties is higher than in any conflict in Gaza's recent history, with Neta Crawford of the Costs of War Project at Brown University ...