Factbox: Taking stock of Israel's 15-month genocidal war on Gaza

Ahram Online , Monday 20 Jan 2025

As soon as the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas began on 19 January, Palestinians started to count their losses as they prepare to rebuild.

Jabalia
People walk past the rubble of collapsed buildings along Saftawi street in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip. AFP

 

The toll is huge on the humanitarian level as well as on the infrastructure. 

  • 92 percent of the homes in Gaza have been destroyed, or around 436,000 homes, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
  • 90 percent of Gaza's 2.3 million population has been displaced by the war, according to OCHA. 

The Palestinian news agency WAFA also published several infographics displaying the death toll, injuries as well as the amount of destruction in the territory since the start of the Israeli genocidal war on the strip on 7 October 2023. 

  • Israel killed 46,899 Palestinians - 17,581 of them children and 12,048 women. 
  • The population of the Gaza Strip declined by 6 percent by the end of 2024.
  • 110,725 Palestinians were injured.
  • Unknown thousands remain under the rubble.
  • 11,000 Palestinians were forcibly disappeared in Gaza.
  • Israeli occupation forces killed 835 civilians in the West Bank.
  • The Israeli army detained 25,000 in the West Bank and Gaza -   14,300 in the West Bank and East Jerusalem and the rest from Gaza. 
  • 96 percent of Gaza’s population, including more than 49,000 pregnant women, suffer from severe food insecurity.
  • 1.6 million Gazans live in tents.
  • Only 14 hospitals are left partly functional out of 36 hospitals in the Gaza Strip.  
  • 788,000 students were deprived of attending their schools for the second year.   

Today, 139 states recognize the State of Palestine out of 193 member-states at the UN General Assembly.  

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