
People walk past the rubble of damaged and collapsed buildings in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip a day after a ceasefire deal in the war between Israel and Hamas went into effect. AFP
Below are the updated statistics.
The deadliest war
- 470 days of Israeli genocidal war on Gaza.
- 10,100 massacres committed overall by Israeli forces.
- 9,268 massacres targeted Palestinian civilians.
- 46,960 martyrs recorded in hospitals.
- 14,222 missing persons unaccounted for as of 18 January 2025.
- 70 percent of victims were children and women.
Families erased from existence
- 2,092 families were completely exterminated, with 5,967 members killed.
- 4,889 families left with only one surviving member.
- 17,861 child martyrs, including 808 under one year old.
- 214 newborns died during the conflict.
- 44 deaths from malnutrition and food shortages caused by the blockade.
- Eight deaths due to extreme cold in displacement camps, including seven children.
- 38,495 orphans created by the war.
- 3,500 children at risk of death from malnutrition.
- 12,316 women martyrs killed by Israeli forces.
- 1,155 medical staff, 94 Civil Defense workers, 205 journalists, and 736 police officers killed.
- 520 martyrs recovered from seven mass graves inside hospitals.
A humanitarian catastrophe
- 220 shelters targeted by Israeli forces.
- Only 10 percent of Gaza designated as "humanitarian areas."
- 13,901 widows due to the war.
- 12,700 wounded require treatment outside Gaza.
- 12,500 cancer patients face death due to lack of treatment.
- 2,136,026 cases of infectious diseases reported, including 71,338 cases of viral hepatitis.
- 6,600 individuals arrested by Israeli forces, including 360 health workers, 48 journalists, and 26 Civil Defense personnel.
- Three doctors killed inside Israeli prisons.
- Two million displaced persons across Gaza.
Targeting essential services
- 137 schools and universities destroyed, with 357 partially damaged.
- 12,800 students killed and 785,000 deprived of education.
- 760 teachers and education staff killed.
- 150 scientists, professors, and researchers executed.
- 823 mosques and 3 churches destroyed.
- 19 cemeteries damaged, with 2,300 bodies stolen by occupation forces.
- 34 hospitals destroyed or rendered inoperative.
- 80 health centres forced out of service.
- 136 ambulances targeted.
Unprecedented destruction
- 161,600 housing units completely destroyed.
- 82,000 units rendered uninhabitable, and 194,000 partially damaged.
- 100,000 tons of explosives dropped on Gaza.
- 206 heritage sites destroyed.
- 3,680 kilometres of electricity networks demolished.
- 330,000 metres of water networks ruined.
- 2,835,000 metres of road infrastructure destroyed.
- 42 sports facilities destroyed.
- 717 water wells rendered inoperative.
- 88 percent of Gaza’s infrastructure destroyed.
- $38 billion in direct losses reported.
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