The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor (Euromed) released an updated count of victims in Gaza on 25 November, showing that Israel’s ethnic cleansing campaign has left at least 20,000 dead since 7 October.
“Our team recently completed an updated statistic of the number of victims, including those we were able to identify who were under the rubble, given the lack of chances of being alive,” Euromed chairman Ramy Abdu said via social media. “The number […] reached 20,031 martyrs, including 8,176 children.”
He added that the number is expected to increase as more bodies are recovered from under the rubble of destroyed buildings.
“This number, together with the wounded, represents an average of 2.6 percent of the population in the Gaza Strip, equivalent to 11 million Arab citizens,” Abdu added in the social media post.
#Infographic| Statistics on the Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip (07 October-24 November 2023) pic.twitter.com/DTqR6EkkiO
— Euro-Med Monitor (@EuroMedHR) November 24, 2023
The infographic published by the Geneva-based nonprofit, which spans 7 October to 24 November, adds that there are 36,350 injured, 67 journalists killed, over 1.7 million displaced, and 59,240 homes completely destroyed.
Cheers and laughter as an entire neighborhood in Jabalia refugee camp is obliterated where 1000s were murdered and injured. And none of these Israeli soldiers, including the one that took a selfie, thought that genocide is not a laughable event. #Gaza pic.twitter.com/ACCXZwNvim
— Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده (@RamAbdu) November 24, 2023
On the morning of 22 November, Hamas and Israel agreed to a four-day truce that would temporarily relieve Gaza of almost 50 days of fighting.
Abdo, in an interview with Al-Jazeera, mentioned that since the beginning of the war, Euromed was focused on the genocidal practices of Israel.
“We reached out to United Nations experts and with international officials and academics to examine these crimes, and indeed more than 800 professors in international law issued a unified statement and confirmed that what is happening are crimes of genocide,” Abdo told the Qatari news organization.
“The role of international institutions, specifically the UN agencies, as there are 18 international agencies in the Gaza Strip that work and are interested in different specialties […] All of these organizations didn’t actually move until the end of the first three weeks,” Abdo stressed.
He added that in the early days of the war, humanitarian organizations “contributed to spreading a state of terror among citizens, when their vehicles and crews were withdrawn, and their headquarters in Gaza City and the north of the Strip were closed, in response to Israeli wishes, which gave indications to citizens that no kind of protection could be provided.”
📍The Palestine Red Crescent teams received 196 trucks loaded with aid through the Rafah crossing yesterday.
— PRCS (@PalestineRCS) November 25, 2023
The trucks contain eight trucks of medical supplies and medicines, and four trucks of hospital beds while the remaining trucks contain food, water, and relief… pic.twitter.com/j16oX7nhyC
The Gaza Strip has faced a crushing humanitarian crisis since the beginning of Israel’s bombing campaign and criminal blockade, as citizens face famine and water scarcity. Furthermore, most hospitals in the enclave have been put out of service due to Israeli attacks.