Almost 70% of all fatalities in Gaza – women and children – UN.

According to the UN, almost 70% of all fatalities during the war in the Gaza Strip are women and children. This is reported by The Guardian.

The UN office verified 8119 deaths during the first six months of the war in Gaza. Among the deceased are 3588 children and 2036 women. The youngest victim was a one-day-old boy, and the oldest was a 97-year-old woman.

It is noted that these numbers are significantly lower than those provided by Palestinian health authorities, which report about 43 thousand deaths over 13 months. However, analysis proves that women and children make up the majority of the deceased.

According to the UN, 7607 people were killed in residential buildings. Of them, 44% are children, 26% are women, and 30% are men.

Children aged five to nine years make up the largest share of the deceased, followed by children aged 10-14 years, then toddlers up to four years inclusive.

«This is not a legitimate response, a targeted 'self-defense' operation to eliminate armed groups, or a war in compliance with humanitarian law. The families, widows, and children I have spoken to experience such suffering, unparalleled in modern history,» said Jan Egeland, Secretary-General of the Norwegian Refugee Council.

Recall, the ceasefire negotiations between Israel and the Hezbollah movement show significant progress.

«We are still negotiating, but in the last 24 hours, such progress has been made that it can be said: President Joe Biden is not sending advisor Amos Hochstein to Israel in vain,» said one of the portal's interlocutors.