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The number of those civilians killed in Gaza surpassed 40,000 over the months since 7 October, 2003 stated the Ministry of Health in Gaza, Thursday.
The figure is trending on the social media and is being recorded by different websites. The Health Ministry has stated that 51.4 percent of the death are women and children.
Just as the latest numbers were being announced three were killed in Biet Hanoon, north Gaza, by a missile fired by an Israeli reconnaissance plane bringing the total number to 40005.
The numbers can be broken down still for the percentage of children killed stand at 33 percent out of the total dead, 18.4 percent for women and 8.6 percent of elderly persons.
“To those who doubt the numbers of killed, I say that every martyr has a name, a picture and a story pointed out the Director-General of the Health Ministry Dr Munir Al Bursh.
Meanwhile General Secretary of the National Palestinian Initiative Dr Mustapha Al-Barghouti that “The crimes of the occupation will not stop as long as their perpetrators escape punishment.”
A Health Ministry statement added that some 92,401 others have been injured in the 10-month-old offensive.
“Israeli forces killed 40 people and injured 107 others in three ‘massacres’ of families in the last 24 hours,” the ministry said.
“Many people are still trapped under rubble and on the roads as rescuers are unable to reach them,” it added according to the Anadolu, the Turkish news agency.
