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 ...

The new disclaimer on OCHA’s “reported impact” statements reads as follows: “Figures that are yet-to-be verified by the UN are attributed to their source. Casualty numbers have been provided by the Ministry of Health or the Government Media Office in Gaza and the Israeli authorities.

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.

February 21, 2024 - “It is unimaginable that the ... Gaza is higher than any recent major armed conflict including Syria (96.5 deaths per day), Sudan (51.6), Iraq (50.8), Ukraine (43.9) Afghanistan (23.8) and Yemen (15.8)....

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

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.

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.

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) ...

November 7, 2023 - Here’s a look at how Gaza’s Health Ministry has generated death tolls since the war started. Gaza’s most widely quoted source on casualties is Health Ministry spokesperson Ashraf al-Qidra. From an office at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, al-Qidra receives a constant flow of data from every ...

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

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

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

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.

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

November 1, 2023 - Real-time fatality counts from conflict zones like Gaza are almost never right. Pay attention to them anyway.

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.