UN Commission on West Asia reports unprecedented scale of death in Gaza

Anjali Sharma

GG News Bureau
UNITED NATIONS, 9th Feb. UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia in its policy brief reported on Friday said that the Gaza conflict is unfolding in a way that makes it the most severe episode in the 56-year Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory.

According to the policy brief by the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia stated that over one per cent of the Gazan population was killed during the first 100 days of the war.

“No other armed conflict in the twenty-first century has experienced such a devastating impact on a population in such a short timeframe. To find a 100-day period with greater bloodshed, it is necessary to go back to the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda,” it said. 

ESCW said the war stands out as unprecedented in the scale of death, destruction, and human suffering it has incurred, with repercussions that will echo for generations, although Gaza has suffered previous military escalations. 

Rola Dashti, the ESCWA Executive Secretary stressed that “The unprecedented impact of the current war on Gaza demands a transformative shift in addressing mounting immediate needs, reevaluating long-term systemic challenges to relief efforts, and confronting the root causes of the conflict”.