Gaza’s population falls by over 10% due to Israel’s genocide: Report
The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) says the population of the Gaza Strip has dropped by 10.6 percent over the last two years, marking a “severe demographic hemorrhage” because of Israel’s genocide.
In its year-end update, PCBS said the strip saw a “sharp and unprecedented population decline of approximately 254,000 people” since Israel’s genocidal war began in October 2023.
The institution tallied 70,942 deaths, including 18,592 children and about 12,400 women, in the Palestinian territory.
According to the PCBS, Israel’s war has displaced approximately two million people, the vast majority of the 2.2 million living in Gaza at the war’s start.
Israel unleashed its brutal Gaza onslaught on October 7, 2023, after Hamas carried out a historic operation against the occupying entity in retaliation for its intensified atrocities against the Palestinian people.
According to the Gaza-based Health Ministry, at least 71,266 Palestinians have been killed and 171,222 others wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza.
Last year, a fragile ceasefire deal, brokered by the United States, was reached in Gaza.
Israeli intelligence reports leaked in the early stages of the war on Gaza suggested officials in the regime were seeking to implement a plan to forcefully relocate hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from Gaza to tent camps in the neighboring Sinai region in Egypt.
Back then, reports said Egypt was offered financial support and debt relief from the US in return for hosting the Palestinians.
Ynet also said Israel proposed writing off a significant chunk of Egypt’s international debts through the World Bank in return for opening its doors for displaced Palestinians.
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