Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip has been the deadliest year of conflict for women and children anywhere in the world over the past two decades, according to an analysis released Tuesday as Israeli forces continued to bombard the Palestinian enclave and launched a ground invasion of Lebanon.

The global humanitarian group Oxfam noted in its new report that Israel’s U.S.-backed assault on Gaza has killed more than 6,000 women and 11,000 children, estimates that the organization deemed “conservative” given that the figures don’t include the tens of thousands of kids who are missing.

“Data from 2004-2021 on direct conflict deaths from the Small Arms Survey estimates that the highest number of women killed in a single year was over 2,600 in Iraq in 2016,” Oxfam observed. “A report by the organization Every Casualty Counts examined information on over 11,000........

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