Gaza’s population down 6% since start of war [Video]

The population of Gaza has fallen six per cent since the war with Israel began nearly 15 months ago as about 100,000 Palestinians left the enclave while more than 55,000 are presumed dead, according to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS).

Around 45,500 Palestinians, more than half of them women and children, have been killed since the war began but another 11,000 are missing, the bureau said, citing numbers from the Palestinian Health Ministry. 

As such, the population of Gaza has declined by about 160,000 during the course of the war to 2.1 million. More than one million, or 47 per cent, of those left in the enclave are under the age of 18, the PCBS said.

Israel’s foreign ministry said the PCBS data was “fabricated, inflated, and manipulated in order to vilify Israel.” 

The PCBS added that Israel has “raged a brutal aggression against Gaza targeting all kinds …