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A statement by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics stated, Tuesday, the population of the Gaza Strip decreased by 6 percent by the end of 2024 due to the ongoing Israeli war of extermination on the Strip.
Bureau head Ola Awad, in a statement pointed out “the Israeli extermination 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.”
She 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 were injured.
She stated that the population of Palestine reached 5.5 million people, including 3.4 million in the West Bank.
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 2023, including more than one million children under the age of 18, constituting 47 percent of the population of the Strip.
The Bureau estimates 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 (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 7 October, 2023, Israel, with American support, has committed 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 elderly people, 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 21 November against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Galant, for war crimes and crimes against humanity against Palestinians in Gaza.
