GAZA, (PIC)
The number of Palestinians killed in 2023 is the largest since the 1948 Nakba (catastrophe), the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) said on Sunday.
In a statement issued on the last day of the year, PCBS pointed out that 22,404 Palestinians have been killed since the beginning of the year, including 22,141 since the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza started on October 7.
98 percent of the Palestinians killed were from the Gaza Strip, including nearly 9,000 children and 6,450 women, according to PCBS.
319 Palestinians, including 111 children and four women, were killed in the occupied West Bank, PCBS cited information from the Palestinian health ministry.
As of the last day of 2023, more than 7,000 missing persons have been recorded — 67 percent of them are children and women.
The Israeli aggression against Gaza also displaced over 1.9 million Palestinians from their homes.
The Bureau of Statistics also cited data from the Palestinian Commission of Detainees’ and Ex-Detainees’ Affairs, saying that thousands of Palestinians had been detained by Israeli occupation forces during 2023.
By the end of November, nearly 7,800 detainees were held in Israeli jails, including 76 women and 260 children, while the number of administrative detainees amounted to 2,870 prisoners.
According to the latest official statistics from the health ministry in Gaza, 21,822 Palestinians have been killed, and 56,451 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocidal war on Gaza.
Palestinian and international estimates say that the majority of those killed and wounded are women and children.
