GAZA (Palestine Foundation Information Center) The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor announced that 10% of Gaza’s population has been either killed, injured, missing, or detained since the start of Israel’s genocidal campaign on October 7, 2023.
In an infographic released to mark 600 days of the ongoing Israeli war on Gaza, the Geneva-based monitor stated that 31% of the victims are children, 21% are women, and 90% of those killed are civilians not involved in combat.
The report showed that 9 out of 10 people killed by Israel over the past 19 months were civilians. Thousands of the injured have suffered amputations or permanent disabilities, including more than 10,000 children who lost at least one leg.
According to the Monitor, 98% of Gaza’s population has been forcibly displaced at least once, mostly to destroyed schools or temporary tents.
The Israeli army treats those who stay behind and do not follow evacuation orders as “collaborators with a terrorist organization.”
The war has destroyed or damaged 80% of Gaza’s buildings, devastated 90% of schools, hospitals, and universities, and reduced per capita daily water access by 99%, due to destruction of infrastructure including 719 water wells.
98% of Gaza’s population is now facing extreme food insecurity.
100 deaths due to malnutrition have been documented, including 42 children.
The Euro-Med accused Israeli authorities of using deliberate starvation as a tool for forced displacement. Nearly 2.4 million Palestinians are living at famine levels, with all crossings closed since March 2.
Regarding detainees, the Euro-Med documented that approximately 4,700 Gaza residents are currently detained or forcibly disappeared in Israeli prisons. Interviews with 100 released detainees revealed 42 forms of torture and inhumane treatment, including rape and sexual assault, electric shocks, beatings and physical humiliation, strip searches, and deaths under torture.
The report concluded that Israel’s ongoing war on Gaza, fully backed by the United States, constitutes an unfolding genocide that has led to the death or injury of over 177,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children, with over 11,000 still missing and hundreds of thousands forcibly displaced.
