The United Nations seemingly halved the estimated number of women and children killed in Gaza, according to UN data published on May 6 and 8.
The UN published the number of fatalities reported by the Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health or the Government Media Office in Gaza and Israeli authorities.
The UN provided a disclaimer below the data: "The UN has so far not been able to produce independent, comprehensive, and verified casualty figures."
May 6 UN statistics on fatalities in Gaza. (credit: UNITED NATIONS)
On May 6, the UN published data showing that 34,735 people had reportedly been killed in Gaza, including over 9,500 women and over 14,500 children.
On May 8, the UN published data showing 34,844 people had reportedly been killed, including 4,959 women and 7,797 children. May 8 UN statistics on fatalities in Gaza. (credit: UNITED NATIONS)
The new figures showed the number of identified deaths as of April 30, which total 24,686 people; the new data also specified that 10,006 men had been killed and 1,924 elderly.
The UN also highlighted that the plurality of identified fatalities were men (40%), while children were (32%) and women (20%).
This comes after months of accusations for leading statisticians that the numbers produced by the Gazan authorities cannot possibly be accurate.
Washington Institute for Near East Policy released a report in January that showed major discrepancies in the fatality reports. They concluded such discrepancies were most likely caused by manipulation.
Professor Abraham Wyner also told Tablet Magazine that the rate of deaths was very unnatural and climbed far too regularly.
He claimed that in war, deaths should be irregular as the intensity of war is irregular, but that the death numbers climbed by 270 plus/minus 15%, which he says is statistically impossible.
somzigt on May 11st, 2024 at 18:13 UTC »
What a terrible clickbait article/post lol. The UN still reports around 34K dead, with incredibly high numbers for children, women and elderly. They just count unconfirmed deaths as a seperate group. This article and the commenters under this post are making it sound like Hamas has overblown the death tolls, while there is no evidence for that, at least not based on the UN changing the statistics a bit. It also completely misses the point, as no one is gonna change their minds about Israeli violence just because a few thousands more or less have died. Saying it’s “good or bad numbers”, in this context is also scarily nihilistic and exactly why people are turning against Israel. Maybe stop fixating on good civilian to combatant ratios as an excuse for inappropriate violence.
Whole_Gate_7961 on May 11st, 2024 at 17:03 UTC »
None of the links in the JPost article go to the UN site or the numbers they claim. They just link to other JPost articles.
If you follow the links in the other JPost articles where they make references to other institutions or sources, they again just lead to more JPost articles.
Why can't JPost link to the source of the information they are using instead of just referencing themselves?
DroneMaster2000 on May 11st, 2024 at 16:23 UTC »
Despite the entire global media, including the UN itself, reporting Hamas's reported death numbers as fact, the UN just quietly reduced the amount of deaths they are reporting from 34,000 to 24,000 and reported on much less "Women and children" killed when compared to males.
According to the new figures include 40% of the deaths reported as males, 32% children, 20% women.
As far as I can tell, the report still does not take into account how many of the children who died were Hamas fighters, who are known to use children as plenty of other terrorist organizations.
According to Israel, there have been 14K dead terrorists in the battles. Which means there is a realistic chance of Israel having one of the best civilian-to-militant casualty rations in it's wars, in the entire history of modern warfare.