At the end of October 2023, after the Hamas attacks occurred on the 7th, the Gaza Ministry of Health estimated that the Israeli Army had already killed 6,000 Palestinians. When journalist Laura Barrón-López asked Joe Biden about these numbers on October 25, the former US president questioned the Palestinian government’s count. “I don’t trust the numbers that the Palestinians are using,” Biden said. The United States, like Israel, has always considered that the murder figures published by the Gaza Ministry of Health were, in reality, Hamas propaganda.. Until now.
A few days ago, the Israeli Army recognized, for the first time, that yes, that the numbers are correct, that the Gazan Ministry of Health is and was right, that Israel has killed more than 71,000 Palestinians since October 7, 2023. Until now, for Israel, but also for the United States, it was easier to defend a genocide in progress if the figures were deniedsome approximate numbers that, however, were always accepted by the United Nations (UN).
According to , “the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have accepted the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry’s estimate that approximately 71,000 Palestinians died during the Israel-Gaza warnoting that the figure does not include missing residents who are potentially buried under the rubble.”
The figures, which in the opinion of many humanitarian organizations may even be conservative, nor do they include Palestinians who have died of hunger “or of diseases aggravated by the war”. “The Ministry’s count only includes those killed directly by Israeli military fire,” he noted. Haaretz.
In the American environment The Intercept have made some doubts that “laid the foundation for the persistent genocide denial that has helped shield Israel from accountability”. “The Biden administration, Congress and the American media were carried away by Israel’s lies and deception about the terrible death toll in Gaza (more than 80% civilians, more than half women and children) to manipulate Americans into continuing to support Israel,” he told The Intercept Sara Leah Whitson, executive director of the humanitarian organization Democracy for Arab World Now (DAWN).
Despite the ceasefire, the number of Palestinians killed by the Israeli Army. According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, More than 500 Palestinians have died in Israeli attacks since the beginning of the truce. “Who believed in the ceasefire?” Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur for the Occupied Palestinian Territories, asked a few days ago. “After killing 500 people in approximately three months, Israel, armed and supported by the United States, continues its genocide in Gaza undisturbed,” Albanese denounced.
