Gaza: Seven births per hour, ten deaths per day

New statistics released by the Gaza Interior Ministry revealed that a birth is registered in the Gaza Strip every ten minutes and that the total population in the besieged coastal strip is close to two million people.

The ministry noted that Gaza’s General Administration for Civil Affairs (GACA) recorded 4,983 births during the month of September, at a rate of 166 births per day.

It also added that the civil records indicated that seven babies are born every hour, suggesting a rate of more than one birth every ten minutes.

According to the statistics released by the Interior Ministry, GACA recorded 291 reported deaths during September, at a rate of ten deaths a day.

The crowded coastal Gaza Strip, which has been subjected to a suffocating Israeli siege for the past decade, is suffering from overcrowding and a very high population density. Gaza’s population has almost reached 2 million people.