{"id":56030,"date":"2025-01-29T17:34:06","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T14:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/?p=56030"},"modified":"2025-01-29T17:34:06","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T14:04:06","slug":"death-toll-in-gaza-might-be-40-higher-than-officially-stated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/56030\/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":"<div>\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<\/div>\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":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7103,7109,7100,7110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-accidents-en","category-health-en","category-international-en","category-politic-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}