{"id":21105,"date":"2025-01-28T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/death-toll-in-gaza-might-be-40-higher-than-officially-stated\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T22:30:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T19:00:00","slug":"death-toll-in-gaza-might-be-40-higher-than-officially-stated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/death-toll-in-gaza-might-be-40-higher-than-officially-stated\/","title":{"rendered":"Death toll in Gaza might be 40% higher than officially stated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/5329829.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"item-text\">\n<p>The number of casualties in the Gaza Strip is likely to exceed the death toll cited by the enclave\u2019s official data by more than 40%, Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner-General of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A peer-reviewed study of death by traumatic injury in Gaza reveals that the mortality figure provided by the Ministry of Health is a minimum estimate. 46,000 deaths is likely an undercount by more than 40%,&#8221; he said at a meeting of the United Nations Security Council on the situation around UNRWA.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The study also confirms that the majority of those killed are women, children, and the elderly,&#8221; he noted.<\/p>\n<p>MP\/<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/en.mehrnews.com\/news\/227564\/Death-toll-in-Gaza-might-be-40-higher-than-officially-stated\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of casualties in the Gaza Strip is likely to exceed the death toll cited by the enclave\u2019s official data by more than 40%, Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner-General of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), said. &#8220;A peer-reviewed study of death by traumatic injury in Gaza reveals &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-middle-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}