Source : NEW INDIAN EXPRESS NEWS
Brutal genocide and underreported deaths
Notably, human rights group Amnesty International released a report on December 5, 2024, which found that Israel has been committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. It doccummented Israel’s actions and intent during its offensive on the occupied Gaza Strip from Oct. 7, 2023.
The report examined the killing of civilians, damage to and destruction of civilian infrastructure, forcible displacement, obstruction or denial of life-saving goods and humanitarian aid, and restriction of power supplies, concluding that Israel committed genocide.
Similarly, an independent United Nations-appointed rights expert had accused Israel of committing “genocide” in Gaza in August 2024.
“Israel is genociding the Palestinians one neighbourhood at the time, one hospital at the time, one school at the time, one refugee camp at the time, one safe zone at a time,” Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the rights situation in the Palestinian territories had said on X.
Meanwhile, a peer-reviewed statistical research published in The Lancet medical journal has estimated that the death toll in Gaza during the first nine months of the war was around 40% higher than recorded by the Palestinian territory’s health ministry.
The study’s death toll estimate was 64,260, which would mean the health ministry had under-reported the number of deaths to that point by 41%. It said 59.1% were women, children and people over the age of 65.
SOURCE :- NEW INDIAN EXPRESS
