Israeli genocide.. Gaza Palestinians to decline by 6 percent by the end of 2024

An official Palestinian report said on Tuesday that the population of the Gaza Strip decreased by 6 percent by the end of 2024 due to the continued Israeli war of extermination on the Strip.

This came according to a statement by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, a copy of which was received by Anadolu Agency, which reviewed the conditions of the Palestinians at the end of 2024.

The head of the agency, Ala Awad, pointed out that "the Israeli genocide resulted in the killing of 45,484 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, and the departure of about 100,000 Palestinians from the Strip since October 7, 2023."

Awad explained that among the dead were 17,581 children, 12,048 women, in addition to about 11,000 missing persons, and 108,090 other citizens injured, according to the statement.

She stated that the population of Palestine reached 5.5 million people, including 3.4 million in the West Bank.

She said that the population of the Gaza Strip decreased by about 160,000 people, reaching 2.1 million, a decrease of 6 percent from the population estimates in the Strip for the year 2023, including more than one million children under the age of eighteen, constituting 47 percent of the population of the Strip.

The statement estimated the number of Palestinians in the world by the end of 2024 at about 14.9 million, "half of whom are outside historical Palestine, including 5.5 million in the State of Palestine (the West Bank, including East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip), and 1.8 million in the 1948 territories."

The statement indicated that the number of Palestinians in the diaspora reached about 7.6 million Palestinians, including 6.4 million in Arab countries.

Since October 7, 2023, Israel, with American support, has been committing genocide in the Gaza Strip, leaving about 154,000 Palestinians dead and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 11,000 missing, amid massive destruction and famine that killed dozens of children and the elderly, in one of the worst humanitarian disasters in the world.

Israel continues its massacres, ignoring two arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court on November 21 against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Galant, for committing war crimes and crimes against humanity against Palestinians in Gaza.

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