During the month of hostilities I experienced in the Gaza Strip, from December 19, 2024, to January 19, 2025, at least 1,407 Palestinians were killed and 3,753 injured by the Israeli army. This is a minimal estimate, based on the registration of bodies in the few public hospitals still operating in the Gaza Strip. Such registration results in the issuance of a death certificate, with all statistics validated by the Ministry of Health of the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah. These are therefore not "Hamas figures," but data considered reliable by the United Nations and humanitarian organizations.

While I was in the Gaza Strip for those 32 days, fewer than one hundred seriously ill patients were able to receive medical evacuation, while, according to the World Health Organization, some 12,000 required it. Deaths due to lack of evacuation and insufficient care are not included in the official victim toll, nor are those who died from epidemics, hunger, thirst, and the many afflictions impacting a population plunged into inhumane conditions. The international outcry that followed the deaths of eight infants from hypothermia at the very end of 2024 quickly faded.

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