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Former Israeli army chief admits to over 200,000 Palestinian casualties in Gaza
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<div class="field field-field-text"><p>Former <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel" target="_blank">Israeli</a> army commander Herzi Halevi has said that more than 200,000 <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine" target="_blank">Palestinians</a> have been killed or wounded in <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/topics/israel-genocide-gaza" target="_blank">Israel's war on Gaza</a>, and that "not once" during <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/explainers/meaning-definition-what-genocide-israel-gaza" target="_blank">the genocide </a>has the army been constrained by legal advice.</p>
<p>More than 10 percent of Gaza's 2.2 million population has been killed or wounded, or "more than 200,000 people", Halevi told a community meeting in southern Israel earlier this week.</p>
<p>Halevi led Israel's onslaught on Gaza for the first 17 months of the war before resigning as chief of staff in March over the massive security breach on 7 October 2023.</p>
<p>The figure is in line with estimates from the Palestinian health ministry in Gaza, which Israel has dismissed, though the United Nations and international humanitarian agencies regard them as reliable.</p>
<p>Multiple authoritative reports by Israeli, Palestinian and international human rights groups have concluded that Israel is committing <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/explainers/international-crimes-explained-genocide-war-crimes-and-crimes-against-humanity" target="_blank">genocide in Gaza</a>, citing evidence of its acts of killing and destruction, as well as evidence of the intent to destroy Palestinians as a group in the besieged enclave.</p>
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