ALBAWABA - Israeli media reported that the United Nations has halved the number of Gaza death toll. But did the international organization really scrub 50% of the number of people killed in Gaza?
According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, the number of Palestinians killed in the latest Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip topped 35,000, with others reported 78,827 injured since Oct. 7.
Did the UN really halve Gaza death toll? Here's full story
Israeli and some American news outlets have been spreading misleading information that the Hamas-run Ministry of Health has reduced the number of deaths in Gaza by 50 percent.
Pro-Israeli activists on X (formerly Twitter) have been since then allegedly claiming that Hamas is giving the wrong civilian death toll [gives a higher number] to gain sympathy from the international community.
In fact, the UN justified reducing the number of children and women killed since Oct. 7 by saying that the death toll in the Gaza Strip is still over 35,000, however, what changed is that the Ministry of Health updated its breakdown of the fatalities.
UN spokesperson Farhan Haq clarified that the death toll figures are reflected in a breakdown of the 24,686 deaths of "people who have been fully identified."
He added in a press conference in New York City: "There are about another 10,000 plus bodies who still have to be fully identified, and so then the details of those - which of those are children, which of those are women - that will be re-established once the full identification process is complete".
Haq answered when he was asked by reporters why the figures for the deaths of women and children had suddenly halved that those figures were for identified bodies; 7,797 children, 4,959 women, 1,924 elderly, and 10,006 men.
