Human victims of the Israeli war against Gaza – in numbers | News about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
It has been 467 days since Israel started the war against the Palestinians in Gaza. That’s more than 15 months of daily bombing, death, wounding, displacement and starvation.
The Israeli attack began on October 7, 2023, following an attack on southern Israel led by the Palestinian group Hamas.
More than 1,100 people were killed in the attacks, and around 240 were captured. Many of the captives were freed in a prisoner exchange in November 2023 or killed during subsequent Israeli attacks.
After the attack, Israel launched a brutal offensive with airstrikes and further tightened the blockade of the enclave, which has been in place since 2007.
46,707 Palestinians killed
In the past 15 months, at least 46,707 people have been killed in Gaza, including around 18,000 children. The death toll means that one in every 50 people has been killed in Gaza. Many analysts and human rights groups believe the actual number killed is far higher.
Despite global condemnation and pleas from international organizations and human rights groups, Israel has continued its campaign of collective punishment of the besieged enclave, where half the population is under 18 years old. In doing so, Israel erased multiple generations of families from the registry.
More than 100,000 people were injured
At least 110,265 people have been injured in Gaza as a result of the war. That’s one in 20 people.
According to the World Health Organization, almost a quarter of the injured, about 22,500 people, have life-changing injuries that require rehabilitation, but are not undergoing rehabilitation. Severe limb injuries are the main type of injury requiring rehabilitation.
According to UNRWA, the United Nations agency for Palestine refugees, every day 10 children lose one or both legs to surgeries and amputations performed with little or no anesthesia due to the Israeli blockade.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health stated that by the end of 2024, there were fewer of them 4500 amputations.
In addition to the confirmed victims, thousands of people are feared to be buried under the rubble. With few tools to clear the rubble and rescue those trapped under the concrete, volunteers and Palestinian Civil Defense workers rely on their bare hands. There is no way to know how many people disappeared under the rubble.
An estimated 85,000 tons of explosives were dropped on Gaza, according to the Palestinian Authority for Environmental Quality. Experts predict it could take more than a decade to clean up the debris from the bombing, which totals more than 42 million tons, according to the UN Development Programme. In addition to the work of clearing the rubble, there is also the risk of dealing with unexploded bombs.
Gaza is starving
According to the Rome Statute, the treaty that established the International Criminal Court, the intentional starvation of a population is a war crime if it is committed during an armed conflict.
Al Jazeera investigation Fault lines revealed that Israel was systematically denying aid and water to starving people in Gaza.
In January, the United Nations humanitarian agency said aid efforts in Gaza were at a standstill “breakpoint”.
Israel restricts aid deliveries and attacks aid workers, creating hungry people who rely heavily on outside aid.
At least eight babies have also died of hypothermia as Palestinians in Gaza struggle to survive in shelters inadequate for winter weather.
Nearly 1.9 million people in Gaza are internally displaced, with nearly 80 percent living in makeshift shelters without adequate clothing or protection from the cold.
UN agencies estimate that almost half a million are in flood-prone areas. Gaza authorities said that about 110,000 of the 135,000 tents used as shelters in the Gaza Strip are dilapidated and unusable.
