Nearly 70 percent of deaths in Gaza are women and children: UN | Israel-Palestine conflict News
Nearly 70 percent of deaths in Gaza are women and children: UN | Israel-Palestine conflict News
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Bu içerikte, Birleşmiş Milletler İnsan Hakları Yüksek Komiseri Volker Turk’ün Gazze’deki sivillerin öldürülmesine ilişkin İsrail’in “görünürde kayıtsız” tutumunu kınadığı belirtiliyor. Birleşmiş Milletler İnsan Hakları Yüksek Komiserliği’nin yayınladığı rapora göre, İsrail’in savaşının ilk altı ayında bildirilen 34.500 kişiden 8.119’unun doğrulandığı ve ölenlerin yaklaşık %70’inin kadın ve çocuk olduğu belirtiliyor. Rapor, İsrail’in sivillere yönelik saldırılarının “insanlık suçu” olabileceği uyarısında bulunuyor. Kurbanların yaş ve cinsiyet dağılımına göre, çocukların %44’ünün kurban olduğu ve en genç kurbanın bir günlük erkek bebek, en yaşlı kurbanın ise 97 yaşında bir kadın olduğu belirtiliyor. Ayrıca raporda, saldırılar sonucu 5 veya daha fazla kişinin aynı anda öldüğü, İsrail’in yoğun nüfuslu bölgelerde geniş alanlara etki eden silahları kullandığı vurgulanıyor. İsrail’in insani yardım girişine izin vermemesi, sivil altyapının yok edilmesi ve tekrarlayan kitlesel yerinden etme gibi hukuka aykırı davranışları da raporda yer alıyor. İsrail ise raporun bulgularına hemen yanıt vermediği belirtiliyor. Son olarak, Gazze Sağlık Bakanlığı’na göre, İsrail’in Gazze’ye yönelik savaşı 7 Ekim 2023’ten bu yana en az 43.469 Filistinliyi öldürdü ve 102.561 kişiyi yaraladığı kaydediliyor.
Overall, 44 percent of the victims were children; the youngest was a day-old boy and the oldest was a 97-year-old woman.
United Nations human rights chief Volker Turk has condemned Israel’s “apparent indifference” to the killing of civilians in Gaza, after a new report from his agency showed that nearly 70 percent of verified deaths were of women and children.
The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) published the report on Friday, having verified 8,119 of the more than 34,500 people reportedly killed during the first six months of Israel’s war in Gaza, finding that a high proportion were women and children – the youngest just one day old.
Turk blasted Israel’s “wanton disregard” for the “rules of war … designed to limit and prevent human suffering in times of armed conflict”. He urged Israel to comply with its international obligations, noting its current siege of northern Gaza and its decision to sever ties with the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA).
The report warned that “widespread or systematic” attacks on civilians could amount to “crimes against humanity”.
“And if committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, they may also constitute genocide,” it said.
The UN’s breakdown of the victims’ ages and genders backs the Palestinian assertion that women and children represent a large portion of those killed in the war.
A Palestinian woman who lost her leg when her family home was hit in an Israeli strike in the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, is carried down a ladder on November 7, 2024 [AFP]
Overall, 44 percent of the victims were children, with the biggest single category aged five to nine, followed by those aged 10-14, and then those aged up to and including four.
The youngest victim was a one-day-old boy and the oldest, a 97-year-old woman.
It showed that in 88 percent of cases, five or more people were killed in the same attack, pointing to the Israeli military’s use of weapons impacting wide areas in densely populated zones.
Some of the deaths may also have been the result of errant projectiles from Palestinian armed groups dropping short, the report added.
It also pointed to “the Israeli government’s continuing unlawful failures to allow, facilitate and ensure the entry of humanitarian aid, the destruction of civilian infrastructure, and repeated mass displacement”.
“This conduct by Israeli forces has caused unprecedented levels of killings, death, injury, starvation, illness and disease,” it continued.
Israel did not immediately comment on the report’s findings.
Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 43,469 Palestinians and injured 102,561 since October 7, 2023, according to the enclave’s Ministry of Health.
Nearly 70 percent of deaths in Gaza are women and children: UN | Israel-Palestine conflict News
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