Since the start of the ceasefire on 10 October 2025, 280 Palestinians have been killed, the Ministry of Health reported, according to @unocha.org on 20 November.
Among them, at least 67 were children killed in “conflict-related incidents” according to @unicef.org.
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I very highly recommend this article on genocide, historicide, and the archives of UNRWA.
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How UNRWA staff rescued the historic family archives of Palestine refugees from Gaza: www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
Horrific figure. Almost 18,000 children killed in Gaza according to latest OCHA update. 31% of verified violence deaths are children. Does not include indirect death toll due to malnutrition, destruction of medical infrastructure - 5,800+ children were diagnosed with malnutrition in June alone.
a couple of hours before my keynote, I went through an intense negotiation with the organisers (for over a hour) where we went through my slides and had to remove anything that mentions 'Palestine' 'Israel' and replace 'genocide' with 'war crimes'
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Over 410 people killed by the Israeli military, at least 3,000 injured trying to get food through the "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation" in the last four weeks. See OCHA video below for conditions and today's UN Human Rights Office report: www.ohchr.org/en/press-bri...
“Rapid responses” from AI agent generated personas “could be used to quickly make a case to donors on what population needs to be prioritized”:
This is going to harm people. We can't fix issues with data collection for humanitarian response by giving up on interviewing and talking to real people.
🔹According to the latest IPC report issued on 12 May, one in five people in #Gaza are facing starvation. The entire population continues to face a critical risk of famine.
📍Our full report on the situation in Gaza and the #WestBank: www.unrwa.org/resources/re...
More details: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
"Fifteen Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers, including at least one United Nations employee, were killed by Israeli forces “one by one” and buried in a mass grave"
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Includes “Recommendations” to Israel, Hamas and UN member states - to the last group to stop arms sales/transfers and other support if it facilitates “commission of serious violations of international law”.
A lot more information in the report, including on hostages taken by Palestinian armed groups, Israeli restrictions on humanitarian aid and attacks against humanitarian actors and civil society.
“The High Commissioner has asked Israel for access to Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) in order to investigate human rights violations on and since 7 October 2023, pursuant to its mandate, which so far has not been granted.”
“documented efforts to rationalize discrimination, hostility and violence towards, and even the elimination of Palestinians.” - “If committed with intent to destroy, [the violations documented in this report] may also constitute genocide.”
“During the reporting period, alarming patterns of Israeli individuals encouraging, advocating and inciting violence against the Palestinian people continued. This trend in language was often top-down,with Israeli officials communicating incendiary and vengeful messages...”
“IDF attacks in Gaza have caused destruction and serious damage to Gaza’s religious, historical and cultural sites. The IDF struck an extensive number of educational institutions, with 412 schools and universities reportedly destroyed or partially damaged as of 23 April 2024.”
“The sheer scale of destruction of civilian homes and essential infrastructure create the conditions for long-term displacement from these areas, which may amount to forcible transfer of the Palestinian population in Gaza.”
“OHCHR monitoring indicated that the “safe zones” where the IDF ordered Palestinians to evacuate to continued to be hit by Israeli strikes, causing fatalities and destruction of residential buildings, and the further displacement of those who had sought safety and shelter.”
“There are strong indications of incidents in which Palestinian journalists may have been directly targeted by the IDF during the course of their work, which would be a war crime.”
“Since 7 October 2023, the IDF has attacked hospitals across Gaza, in apparent systematic fashion, effectively crippling the healthcare system at a time of drastically increased needs.” - “Emergency medical workers were killed in large numbers.”
“At beginning of April, over 1.1 million people in the Gaza Strip were facing an extreme level of food insecurity” - “Statements made by Israeli officials raised concerns that starvation was deliberately inflicted by Israel to punish the civilian population, and to effect the return of hostages”.
“OHCHR verified an incident of a toddler burnt by white phosphorus at a school. In addition, OHCHR gathered accounts from medical professionals in Gaza on their observations of patients admitted with symptoms associated with exposure to white phosphorus, including very deep burns.”
“OHCHR gathered information of alleged incidents during which IDF troops on the ground in Gaza targeted and killed presumed civilians, including by summary execution.”
“the strikes [...] suggest a pattern of attacks inflicting casualties evenly as a proportion across the entire population, [...] raising further concerns that the IDF has failed to strictly comply with fundamental principles of IHL.”
44% of verified deaths in residential buildings were children (ages 5-9 the largest group killed), 26% women, 30% men.
...172 families that had lost between 10 and 19 members, 69 families that had lost between 20 and 29 family members, and 43 families that had lost more than 30 members. The actual figures may likely be considerably higher.”
“IDF strikes on residential buildings have resulted in a shocking number of entire families being killed. As of 31 August 2024, OHCHR had verified 200 families that had lost between 5 and 9 members,...
New UN Human Rights report with verified figures and findings documenting the situation in Gaza:
www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
