Source: Independent Catholic News

The names and ID numbers of more than 50,000 people killed by Israel in Gaza in the last 18 months have been published by Iraq Body Count (IBC) a database of official statistics complied from hospital, morgue, NGO and other official records. (It does not count many thousands more people reported missing whose remains are under the rubble.)

The 981 page list makes chilling reading. One researcher said: “Reading out of names of the Gaza dead is a very spiritual ritual. Though at 10 names per minute it would take 83 hours non stop to read them all out. Even just reading out the 876 names of babies killed under the age of one would take 90 minutes.”

John Sloboda, a Roman Catholic who is a member of the Westminster Justice and Peace Holy Land Roundtable and a co-founder of Iraq Body Count, told ICN:

“Naming those killed is the most basic way of recognising and honouring their dignity as individuals. Contemplating unimaginably large numbers can freeze us into helpless immobility, or lock us into abstractions…” Continue reading on ICN

The next meeting of the Westminster Holy Land Roundtable takes place on Saturday 5th April, 4-6pm, at Farm Street Church, 114 Mount Street, London, W1K 3AH and is facilitated by Colette Joyce, the Westminster Justice and Peace Co-ordinator.

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Read the list here: www.iraqbodycount.org/pal/moh_2025-03-23.pdf