- 65% of individuals in the State of Palestine are under 30 years of age

- About 14.63 million Palestinians in the world by the end of 2023

The Central Bureau of Statistics said that the toll of dead this year is the largest toll that Palestine has witnessed since the Nakba of 1948.

The census added in a statement today, Sunday, at the end of the year 2023, that the number of killed in Palestine since the beginning of the year 2023 is (22,404) person, including (22,141) killed since the seventh of October, 98% of whom are in the Gaza Strip, including about 9,000 children and 6,450 women, while the number of killed in the West Bank since October 7 reached 319 person, including 111 children and 4 women. More than 100 journalists were also killed according to the records of the Ministry of Health, while the number of missing persons who were reported in In the Gaza Strip, more than 7,000 people are missing, including 67% of children and women. Nearly 1,900,000 citizens have been displaced inside the Strip, far from their places of residence.

By the end of 2023, the population in the Gaza Strip reached 2.3 million individuals, including 1.06 million children under the age of eighteen, constituting 47% of the Strip’s population. More than two months after the aggression on Gaza, 40% of the martyrs were children and about 30% were women.

According to the data of the Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners’ Affairs Authority until the end of the year 2023, the number of prisoners in Israeli occupation prisons reached about 7,800 prisoners by the end of November 2023, including 76 female prisoners and 260 children, and the number of administrative detainees (detainees without charge) reached (2870). Detained.

The agency stated that more than 745 thousand settlers in 151 colonies were established on Palestinian lands in the West Bank at the end of 2022, and the Israeli occupation demolished and destroyed more than 1,200 buildings and facilities, completely or partially, in the West Bank (including East Jerusalem), according to data. United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). Since the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, the Israeli occupation has completely destroyed at least 65,000 housing units, in addition to partially destroying more than 290,000 housing units.

A severe water crisis and limited access to water threaten the lives of residents in the Gaza Strip

The Gaza Strip suffers from a severe crisis in access to water, as, under normal conditions in the period before October 7, the average per capita consumption of water in the Strip was estimated at approximately 82.7 liters/person/day. With the outbreak of the aggression, estimates indicated that The residents of the Gaza Strip can barely reach between 1-3 liters/person/day only.

The percentage of supplies from water sources decreased by 90%, and thus the percentage of water consumption was lower by 92% than it was before the aggression, and there is one pipeline that supplies the southern regions only with about 1,100 cubic meters per hour, while the northern governorates of the Strip suffer from a lack of Complete access to safe water.

The residents of the Gaza Strip lack the basics of life, including housing, food and water. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) indicated that at least 40% of the population of the Gaza Strip are at risk of famine, which means that the population of the Gaza Strip is suffering from catastrophic hunger, and this indicates that the Gaza Strip is now considered one of the most famished regions in the world. .

39% of the affected agricultural lands in North Gaza Governorate

The data indicated that 18% of the agricultural areas in the Gaza Strip were damaged, and the direct and greatest damage was in the northern Gaza governorates, as the damage affected 39% of the agricultural areas in the North Gaza Governorate and 27% in the Gaza Governorate.

Agricultural census data also indicated that 32% of the cultivated area in the Gaza Strip is in Khan Yunis Governorate, and 29% in North Gaza Governorate.

About 14.63 million Palestinians in the world by the end of 2023

The estimated number of Palestinians at the end of 2023 was approximately 14.63 million; 5.55 million in the State of Palestine, more than a third of whom reside in the Gaza Strip, about 1.75 million Palestinians in the 1948 territories, approximately 6.56 million in Arab countries, and about 772 thousand in foreign countries.

It is expected that the number of Palestinians will reach about 7.3 million in historic Palestine, while the number of Israelis will reach 7.2 million by the end of 2023.

65% of individuals in the State of Palestine are under 30 years old

The percentage of individuals (0-5) was 16% of the total population in Palestine, 15% in the West Bank and 18% in the Gaza Strip, while the percentage of individuals under 18 years old was 44%, 41% in the West Bank and 47% in the Gaza Strip. Gaza, and the percentage of individuals under 30 years of age in Palestine reached 65% of the total population in Palestine. 63% in the West Bank and 68% in the Gaza Strip. The percentage of individuals aged (65 years and over) was 4%.

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