4% of Gaza’s population killed, missing, injured, rights group says

No fewer than 90,000 people, representing about 4% of the population in Gaza, are dead, wounded, or missing, according to a human rights monitor report.

The Geneva-based Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, in its assessment of the raging violent conflict in Gaza, explained that Israel’s continuous air, land, and sea attacks have destroyed about 70% of the Gaza Strip’s civilian infrastructure since October 7, when the fighting broke out.

In a statement, the group accused Israel of pushing out hundreds of thousands of civilians towards mass forced displacement.

The group stressed that hundreds of bodies that cannot be recovered remain on roads, especially in places where the Israeli army has conducted ground invasions.

The statement added that Israel’s attacks are an “apparent attempt” to expand its territory to include the entire Gaza Strip, uprooting the vast majority of the population in violation of international law, which, it added, “likely amounts to war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.”

Since a cross-border strike by the Palestinian resistance group Hamas on Oct. 7, Israel has launched a barrage of air and military attacks on the Gaza Strip.

Nearly 2 million residents have been displaced amid acute shortages of food, clean water, and medicine.

According to Gaza’s health authorities, at least 22,600 Palestinians have been killed and 57,910 have been injured since then. The Israeli death toll stood at 1,200.