In response to US President Joe Biden’s doubt about the death toll in Gaza, the Palestinian health ministry on Thursday released the details of 7,028 people killed by Israeli air strikes since the war began on 7 October.
Earlier, Biden told reporters at the White House that he has “no notion that the Palestinians are telling the truth” about the number of people killed by Israel so far.
“I’m sure innocents have been killed, and it’s the price of waging a war,” he added.
The 210-page report, accessed by Maktoob, details the names, ages, genders, and ID numbers of every person killed in the enclave.
Health Ministry spokesperson Ashraf al-Qudra said the US administration was “devoid of human standards, morals and basic human rights values” for “shamelessly” questioning the validity of the death toll.
“We decided to go out and announce, with details and names, and in front of the entire world, the truth about the genocidal war committed by the Israeli occupation against our people,” he said.
The report excludes those buried without being brought to hospital, those for whom hospitals were unable to complete registration procedures, and people missing under the rubble, who number around 1,600, with many of them feared dead.
The number of unidentified people killed is 218, but they are not included in the final death toll.
Biden is called a “genocide denier” by pro-Palestinian activists for making such a comment.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said Biden’s remarks were “shocking and dehumanising” and urged him to apologise.
