The classification of a casualty as “civilian” does not carry any implication regarding the legality of his or her killing or injury. The determination about the affiliation of Palestinians killed during hostilities in Gaza was done by the Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights, in its ...

A major shift in the death toll for women and children points to deeper problems in the way OCHA is relaying data and handling questionable sources.

May 14, 2024 - Spokesperson says confusion results from Gaza health ministry’s new way of classifying those not yet fully identified

May 17, 2024 - A recent drop in UN estimates of killed Palestinian women and children brought Israeli criticism.

Given the discrepancies in official Palestinian counts and their growing reliance on questionable data from media reports, the credibility gaps revealed by a previous Washington Institute study have become yawning chasms.

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.

March 15, 2024 - Some have questioned the growing death toll in Gaza, but a leading expert explains why it's correct.

February 21, 2024 - For 100 days the people of Gaza have endured a living hell. Nowhere is safe and the entire population is at risk of famine. “It is unimaginable that the international community is watching the deadliest rate of conflict of the 21st century unfold, while continuously blocking calls for a ceasefire.” · 15 January 2024 CLARIFICATION: Using publicly available data...

November 7, 2023 - An explosion at al-Ahli Hospital in mid-October has called the health ministry's credibility into question. But over past wars, the ministry has largely maintained a track record of accuracy.

News and Press Release in English on occupied Palestinian territory about Protection and Human Rights; published on 17 May 2024 by AOAV

May 16, 2024 - The UN says it is now relying on figures from the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza.

The raging war in Gaza is the latest symptom of the international community’s epic failure to address decades of Israel’s illegality and impunity, the expert tasked with monitoring human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories told the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) ...

May 13, 2024 - The death toll in the Gaza Strip from the Israel-Hamas war is still more than 35,000, but the enclave's Ministry of Health has updated its breakdown of the fatalities, the United Nations said on Monday after Israel questioned a sudden change in numbers.

1 month ago - On May 6, a U.N. office reported that more than 9,500 women and 14,500 children had been killed so far in Gaza. The office had been reporting similar figures for nearly two months. Yet on May 8, the...

May 14, 2024 - Changes in how the UN calculates Gaza’s casualties have been cited as evidence of bias. They aren’t.

May 17, 2024 - The question of how many Palestinians have died in Gaza since Hamas’s deadly Oct. 7 attack in Israel has taken on renewed urgency

November 16, 2023 - The BBC has been looking in detail at how the casualty figures are totalled.

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.