1.4 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. 2.5 million in the West Bank.
Palestinians killed by the IDF in the intifada, http://www.btselem.org/english/Statistics/Casualties.asp 29.9.2000-31.7.2006 total in the Occupied territories 3631`Palestinians killed by Israeli civilians 41. http://electronicintifada.net/bytopic/219.shtml Palestinian Casualty Statistics Casualty Statistics Detailed, reliable casualty statistics are hard to find for any warzone. This section offers links to sources that offer information about Palestinians and Israelis killed and injured in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. # Total daily numbers of deaths & injuries - West Bank & Gaza (Current) The Palestine Red Crescent Society's portal to statistics on Palestinian deaths and injuries by month, with the most recent month shown by day. Includes types of injury. # Intifada Summary (Current) The Palestine Red Crescent Society's portal to a variety of statistics on Palestinian deaths and injuries, and types of injury. # Casualties Database (Current) Palestine Red Crescent Society resource searchable by date and date/region. http://www.palestinercs.org/crisistables/table_of_figures.htm\
Total daily numbers of deaths & injuries - West Bank & Gaza
Figures inclusive
During the period Sept. 30 '00 - August, 18 '06, Midnight Total Deaths 4,171
http://fromoccupiedpalestine.org/index.php?or=89 IDF's war on children
index: >> Most recent articles | al Aqsa intifada | children | human rights | Gideon Levy Twighlight zone: Suffer the little children GIDEON LEVY Ha'aretz, 4 December 2004
In the present intifada, 323 Palestinian children under the age of 14 have been killed by IDF fire. Three recent examples from Nablus...
Why waste ammunition? A few days ago, an Israel Defense Forces soldier fired at two boys in the casbah of Nablus. Just a lone bullet that penetrated the body of one of the boys, exited, penetrated the second boy, and killed both of them. Two 15-year-old boys standing with their arms around each other on the street that descends to the marketplace.
http://daledamos.blogspot.com/2006/08/123-israeli-children-killed-by.html
The 123 Israeli Children Killed by Palestinian Terrorists
http://www.mideastweb.org/log/archives/00000396.htm
>...What follows below is some information that covers two different
but partially overlapping periods of time---calendar year 2004, and
October 2004 through September 2005. While the data aren't strictly
comparable, the numbers give some additional perspective on intifada
fatalities.
A compilation by the newspaper Haaretz found that Israel's rate of intifada deaths declined sharply in the fifth year of the Palestinian uprising. In 12 months ending in September 2005, Haaretz counted only 56 Israelis killed in the intifada. This is a rate of 0.8 deaths per 100,000 population.
In the same period, Haaretz reported, Israeli soldiers and security services killed 417 Palestinians, and Israeli settlers killed eight Palestinians. These 425 deaths were at a rate of 11.2 per 100,000 population, figured according to a widely accepted estimate of 3.8 million Palestinians living outside the Green Line. This equals San Francisco's 2004 homicide rate of 11.2 per 100,000 population and is less than the homicide rates in Baltimore County (12.5) and Los Angeles (13.4). The actual number of homicides in Los Angeles in 2004 was 518, or almost 20 percent more than the number of Palestinians killed by Israelis in the past 12 months.
Most of the Palestinian deaths occurred in Gaza, where Israelis killed 324 people in the past year. At the widely accepted estimate of 1.38 million population, the Gaza deaths yield a rate of 23.5 per 100,000 residents. In 2004, homicides in the New Orleans Metropolitan Statistical Area claimed more lives, 338, at a higher rate --- 25.5 per 100,000. (Of these killings, 264 occurred within the New Orleans city limits, at a rate of 56.0 per 100,000 population.)
Researchers have disputed the accuracy of Palestinian population figures. Professor Arnon Sofer of Haifa University has contended that the real figure is about 2.9 million. If correct, this estimate would increase the Palestinian violent-death rate to 14.7 per 100,000, raising it almost to the level of Denver (15.4).
In January, a study by American and Israeli researchers went further than Sofer and estimated the Palestinian population outside the Green Line at no more than 2.4 million. By this estimate, the 425 Palestinian deaths of the past year were at a rate of 17.7 killings per 100,000 population. This is the same rate as Savannah reported for 2004. It is slightly less than Miami's 2004 homicide rate (17.9) and considerably below the rates of Detroit (20.3) and San Francisco's neighbor city of Oakland (20.6).
Another conclusion of the January study was that the Gaza population is only 1,070,000. If this is correct, the 324 Gaza killings by Israelis in the past 12 months were at a rate of 30.3 per 100,000 residents. This approaches the 2004 homicide rates of St. Louis (33.7) and Washington, D.C. (35.8).
This leaves the Gaza rate far short of Baltimore City (43.4), Richmond, Va. (47.3) and New Orleans city (56.0).
http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/060710/2006071016.html Palestinian population is 3.9 million in Gaza and West Bank Palestine, Politics, 7/10/2006
Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) said that Population in the Palestinian Territory increased by 39% during the period 1997-2006.
PCBS said that the Palestinian population reached 3.9 million in mid year 2006, of which 46% are less than 15 years.
"Gaza Strip population increased by 45% during the period 1997-2006, reached about 1.4 million in mid year 2006. The West Bank population increased by 37% during the period 1997-2006, reached about 2.5 million in mid year 2006," it stated.
PCBS revealed that despite the decline in the natural increase rate to 3.3% in the year 2006 compared with 3.8% in 1997 the population will continue increasing. Hebron is the most populated governorate in the West Bank, its population totaled 543 thousands in mid year 2006, whereas Gaza is the most populated governorate in Gaza Strip totaled 506 thousands.
The Palestinian population is characterized as young population, the percentage of persons aged less than 15 years represents about 45.7% of total population in the Palestinian Territory mid 2006, of which 43.9% in the West Bank and 48.8% in Gaza Strip. Compared with 3.0% aged 65 years and above.
"The trend of fertility rate is declining, fertility rate reached 4.6 births per woman in the Palestinian Territory during 2004, of which 4.1 in the West Bank and 5.8 in Gaza Strip. while fertility rate in the Palestinian Territory was 6.0 births per woman in 1997," PCBS reported.
Regarding infant mortality rate in the Palestinian Territory decreased from 27.7 per 1000 live births during 1990-1994 to 24.2 per 1000 live births during 1999-2003. The life expectancy for 2006 in the Palestinian Territory is 71.7 years for males and 73.2 years for females.
PCBS mentioned that the nuclear households increased by 10.9% in 2005 compared with 1997, constituting about 81.3% of the total households in the Palestinian Territory in 2005, compared with 73.3% in 1997. The percentage of the households headed by females reached 8.2% of the total households in the Palestinian Territory in 2005.
Regarding reproductive health, data showed that 96.5% of women aged 15-49 years received antenatal care in the Palestinian Territory in 2004, while only 34.0% of women received postnatal care, of them 37.6% in the West Bank and 29.6% in Gaza Strip. On the other hand 9.9% of children aged less than five years suffered chronic malnutrition (stunting). It is obvious that Gazan children suffer more than West Banker children, the percentage was 11.4% and 8.8% respectively.
The illiteracy rate reached 7.7% of total persons aged 15 years and over in the Palestinian Territory in 2005, 3.1% among males and 11.1% among females, moreover 7.5% of the persons aged 15 years and over have bachelor and above, 9.2% for males and 5.8% for females, its distributed by 7.0% in the West Bank and 8.4% in Gaza Strip.
"The unemployment rate reached 25.3% in the Palestinian Territory during the first quarter of 2006, distributed by 21.4% in the West bank and 34.1% in Gaza Strip. The estimated poverty rate among Palestinian households in the Palestinian Territory during the 2nd quarter 2006 reached 65.8%, distributed by 87.7% in Gaza Strip and 54.65 in the West Bank, Estimates showed that about 55.65 of households are suffering deep poverty, distributed by 79.8% in Gaza Strip and 43.2% in the West Bank," PCBS said.
As for housing, PCBS said that 87.8% of the households in the Palestinian Territory owned their housing unit in 2005, distributed bt 85.9% in the West Bank and 91.7% in Gaza Strip, while 7.4% are living in rented housing units, 8.8% in the West Bank and 4.7% in Gaza Strip.
-- Michael Pugliese