Written questions

Gaza: Israel

Lords · Question HL5769 · Tabled 13 Mar 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office · Official record

Answered 26 Mar 2025

Question

Asked by Baroness Deech

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Collins of Highbury on 10 March (HL5089), what assessment they have made of the reliability of the figures produced as a result of changes of methodology used by the Gazan Ministry of

Answer

Answered by Lord Collins of Highbury, 26 Mar 2025

The UK Government uses data from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) for the numbers of those killed in the current Gaza conflict. OCHA obtain their figures from the Gazan Ministry of Health (MoH). Producing relia...