By ZAKAA LAZARUS-Abuja
The Palestinian Ambassador to Nigeria, Abu Shawesh has said that 42,227 Palestinians were killed, while 98,464 injured in the ongoing war between Isreal and Palestine.
The Palestinian Envoy also revealed that the figures include both children and women.
Shawesh disclosed this while briefing newsmen at the Palestine Embassy in Abuja.
According to him, “Scores of casualties including women and children, are suffering the excruciating pain of severe life changing burns.
He said there is no way to get them the urgent care they need to survive and manage such injuries.
According to him, “As of October 15, the casualty toll in Gaza has now surpassed 42,227 Palestinians killed and 98,464 injured, with the vast majority of them being women and children.
He noted that as of October 14, the detention toll reached 11,300 in the Occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, with 9,392 administrative detentions, 425 women, 745 children and 112 media correspondents, 59 of whom still in prison.
Shawesh also noted that “as of October 14, citing Save the Children, “Up to 400,000 Palestinians were trapped across northern Gaza, with at least 300 people reportedly killed in nine days of bombardment, and a hospital sheltering thousands ablaze in the south with no end in sight to the incessant attacks on civilians
” In the so-called humanitarian zone” in the south, patients and families sheltering in tents were on engulfed by a massive fire triggered by an Israeli airstrike with reports of deaths and multiple causalities..”
On October, 2024, 99 American medical professionals who voluntarily served in Gaza since October 7 signed an open letter to the US president and vice president.
“It is likely that the death toll from this conflict is already greater than 118,908, an astonishing 5.4% of Gaza’s population.
“In Gaza we watched malnourished mothers feed their underweight newborns infant formula made with poisonous water.
“Women underwent vaginal deliveries and even C-sections without anesthesia and were given nothing but Tylenol afterwards because no other pain medications were available.
“We wish to be absolutely clear: not once did any of us see any type of Palestinian militant activity in any of Gaza’s hospitals or other healthcare facilities”.
“The USA-backed Israeli occupation, right in front of the world’s eye, is intended to tame the international community’s consciousness and make the ongoing televised genocide the Status Quo and business as usual. Shawesh said.
