Gaza health ministry denies manipulating death toll figures

Alam Hirzallah resigns himself as a terrible task at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. I register two children in my cousin in sorrow with my wife.

His family brought a corpse to an electric rigidity or a tuk tuk. They found them in the house of Gaza City after the bombardment of Israel hit the family’s house. ASMA Hirzallah and Abdullah, 5, 5, and 3 years old, died.

“The hospital has called for a statement and ID number,” Alam explained, referring to the numbers provided by all Palestinians in the population registration cattle managed by Israel.

“They confirmed that they were martyred and told them to come back for the certificate of death. Now we don’t know where the cemetery in the area under the control of Israel will be buried.”

According to the Hamas-Run Ministry of Health, at least 51,266 people died 18 months after the beginning of the Gaza War, and nearly one-third of deaths under 18 years of age.

Israel argued that the accuracy of the Palestinian death list, especially the total number, especially demographic failure, is used as Hamas propaganda. The figures are cited by the UN institution and are widely cited in the media.

The list did not distinguish between civilians and members of the Palestinian armed group murdered in the war, and Israel accused Hamas that Hamas had inflated the proportion of women and children.

Recently, some media reports have questioned the reliability of statistics by emphasizing the ideals between August 2024, October 2024 and March 2025. The report focuses on how about 3,000 people who were originally identified as deaths were later removed from the revised list.

Zaher Al-Wahidi, a Gazan health authority, insisted that the victims were disappeared or lacked transparency, saying, “The Ministry of Health has denied that the Ministry of Health is trying to have high reliable exact data.

“The list of shared lists increases the verification and revision of the list. The Ministry of Health cannot say that the name removes the name. This is not the removal process, but the amendment and verification process.”

How accurate statistics are collected and how accurate it is?

The number of people who died in the first month of the war was calculated by counting a body that arrived at the same hospital as Asma Hirzola and her children.

MEDICS can log in to the centralized computer system and backed up from Al-Rantissi Hospital.

But as the conditions are more confused and the medical places are repeatedly attacked, this method is less reliable. During the war, Israel said that Hamas was used to hide fighters and infrastructure, so it was targeted for hospitals that protected their status in accordance with international law.

Since early 2024, Gazan Health officials have introduced an online form that relatives can be used to report their loved ones died or missing.

According to Wahidi, the statistical officer of the Ministry of Health, most of the names removed from the recent official list were originally submitted using this form. He says that the takeoff name can be added later.

Wahidi said, “The Judicial Commission was founded and investigated all the events received.” To ensure reliability, check the data so that the data can be accurate. “

In the process of investigation by the Judicial Commission, some people were found to have died directly as a natural cause due to war. Gazans describes Wahidi that “these cases are indirect and not added to the list.”

Others were misunderstood as death, but were found to be one of thousands of gazans in prison by Israel.

Wahidi said more than 3,000 names were removed from the list in August and October, and this is a prevention measure with the entire check.

For some Israeli groups, such as media watchdock honesty reports, this was a powerful sign for “intentional operation, not honest errors.”

There was a wide range of estimates that included only the identified name in the identified online list.

Professor Royal Holloway College, the chairman of all casualties, an independent civilian casualty monitoring organization, said, “It seems that more information appears and actually updates the list in real time.

But he said that health officials detect their attempts to mislead and see the change as “big cleaning work.”

He pointed out that the proportion of adult men who were murdered due to the latest modifications of this list was slightly increased, and that the original included of more than 3,000 people was made to exaggerate the proportion of women and children.

The Gaza Health Minister also said he also thanked data for errors and omissions in the list of official deaths in the hospital video.

When friends or neighbors died, they often say they did not know the ID or statement of murdered people, including the names of their father and grandfather. In some cases, this was indicated that the wrong people were dead.

Thousands of bodies and unknown 900 people under the debris left by Israeli raids are not included in the list of health.

However, the recent two -month ceasefire has allowed hundreds of thousands to return to the remaining place.

At the end of January The BBC filmed the workers of the HAMAS-RUN civil defense institution. They began to search for the remaining human ruins for several months in Wadi Gaza, also known as the Netzarim corridor after withdrawal by the Israeli army.

DNA tests were not available in Gaza, so each body was given a serial number. It was filled in a long form to record the collected bones and clothes to identify the dead.

Sameh Khalifa said, “We are looking for unique personal belongings such as watches, necklaces or earrings.

“Even the broken teeth can be a distinct mark that helps the family recognize the missing loved ones.”

The number of deaths that died after Israel’s military offensive in Gaza on March 18 increased every day.

Israel presumes to have died of Palestinian fighters periodically. Earlier this year, it was evaluated that 20,000 members of Hamas and Palestine Islamic Jihad were one of the dead. In mid -April, he said last month that there are over 100 goals.

Israel did not provide figures for civilian deaths in Gaza and did not officially challenge the name in the list of local health casualties.

The war began on October 7, 2023 when Hamas led a border between southern Israel, where about 1,200 people, mainly killed civilians, and took about 250 people from Gaz. Since then, the Israeli troops have said that 408 soldiers have died in battle.

International journalists, including the BBC, have not been able to confirm the numbers on both sides because Israel prevented them from entering the country independently.

We are working with us to access the fatal attacks that Palestinians work with us. Visit the witness interviews, bombs and hospital nutrition obstacles to visit the movie.

Overall, the number that died in the past year has shaken people from the battle of battle in the conflict between Israel-Palestine decades ago, but at that moment did not end the war.