24 thousand newborns in Gaza during the first half of the year

Official sources in the Gaza Strip reported that the number of newborns for the first half of the current year amounted to more than 24 thousand, while the total number of cases deaths reached 2051.

According to statistics carried out by the General Administration of Civil Affairs in the Ministry of the Interior, the number of newborns in the Gaza Strip reached during the first half of the year “24073 newborns.”

51.27 percent of the newborns are males, while 48.72 percent are females (12,343 boys and 11,730 girls)

Over the past six months of this year, 132 new babies are born in the Strip each day, the statistics noted.

It added that the number of deaths in the Gaza Strip reached during the first half of this year 2051; “53.92 percent of the death rate are males and 46.07 percent are females.”