It is stated that more than 6 thousand people recorded as missing may be found under the rubble where the Israeli army used tens of thousands of tons of bombs and explosives in the Gaza Strip, the third most populous point in the world.
22,141 MARTYRS SINCE OCTOBER
Palestinian official agency WAFA published the report prepared by the Palestinian Central Statistics Agency on the population, deaths and detention numbers in 2023.
Accordingly, 22 thousand 404 people have been martyred throughout Palestine (Gaza and West Bank) since the beginning of 2023, and 22 thousand 141 people have been martyred only since October 7.
While 98 percent of the deaths after October 7, when Israeli attacks began, were recorded in Gaza, 9 thousand of them were children and 6 thousand 450 were women.
40 PERCENT OF THE MARTYRS ARE CHILDREN, 30 PERCENT ARE WOMEN
During the same period, 319 Palestinians, including 111 children and 4 women, were martyred in the West Bank. Approximately 1.9 million people were displaced due to attacks in the Gaza Strip.
The population of Gaza reached 2.3 million in 2023. 1.06 million of the population were children under the age of 18.
Of those martyred in Israeli attacks, 40 percent were recorded as children and 30 percent were women.
According to the figures, 2023 was the year in which the most Palestinians were martyred since the "Great Disaster" (Nakba) in 1948, when Israel was founded.