Data, October 7, 2023 - July 20, 2025 – The Gaza Strip
- Adi Ronen Argov
- Jul 21
- 3 min read
Updated: 5 days ago
‣ This data report is partial, focusing on fatalities and the worsening hunger crisis brewing in the Gaza Strip. A more comprehensive report will be posted at the beginning of next month.
Palestinians killed
1. 59,895 Palestinians killed (as of July 20, 2025) since October 7, 2023. This does NOT include about 11,000 missing persons or whoever died of illness, medical neglect or starvation. This datum includes only those killed by direct military action. Among them:
‣ 17, 921 children (17,948 including unidentified persons), namely 31% of the total persons killed:
Up to 6-months-old | Up to 1-year-old | Up to 5-years-old |
574 | 953 | 4,680 |
3.2% | 5.3% | 26% |
◦ 800 children were killed and identified between June 14 and July 15, 2025.
‣ Women, men and elderly persons killed:
Women | Men | Elderly persons |
9,496 | 26,655 | 4,307 |
16% | 46% | 7% |
‣ 1,624 members of medical, rescue, aid and journalism teams:
Medical team members | Aid worjers | Rescue team members | Journalists |
366 nurses | 483 | 131 | 228 |
259 paramedics | |||
157 doctors | |||
Total 782 | |||
48% | 30% | 8% | 14% |
‣ Families:

2. Since March 18, 2025 (date of the violation of the ceasefire agreement) – 8,066 persons killed.
Since the beginning of July, 2025 – 2,360 persons killed.
Israelis killed (on the Gaza Strip front alone)
‣ 1,649 persons killed since October 7, 2023, of whom
◦ 38 were minors;
◦ 449 were soldiers, killed since the ground invasion began.
Israeli hostages
‣ 251 were kidnapped on October 7, 2023.
Freed alive | Returned dead | Still in the Gaza Strip |
146 | 56 | 50 27 of whom are established dead |
Palestinians wounded
‣ 140,980 as of July 20, 2025.
◦ 7,338 since the beginning of July, 2025.
◦ 28,934 since March 18, 2025.
‣ Over 10,000 awaiting medical evacuation.
Israelis wounded
‣ About 5,400 on October 7, 2023.
2,809 since October 7, 2023 (male and female soldiers)
The Hunger Crisis
‣ The GHF organization operates 4 compounds – 3 in Rafah and one near Nuseirat refugee camp (opened on May 27, 2025). The Israeli army attacks people waiting outside these compounds and the organization’s security guards attack inside them.
◦ According to the UN, during the week between July 9 and 15, 2025, 29 aid delegations entered the Strip (14 to the North and 15 to the South). In most cases the trucks are looted, and the Israeli army attacks those waiting for aid.
◦ On July 20, 2025, people waiting for aid in the north-western part of the Strip (Ziqim area) were attacked, 88 persons were reported killed (in an initial count).
‣ So far 922 people seeking aid have been killed, and 5,861 wounded.
‣ 92% of the children under the age of two and pregnant or nursing women do not receive the nutrition they need.
‣ 290,000 children under the age of 5 and 150,000 pregnant women need food supplements.
‣ According to Doctors Without Borders, their clinics in Gaza City are treating 700 pregnant and nursing women, 500 children (326 of them under the age of 2). They all suffer from malnutrition, a rise of 400% since last May.
‣ According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza, as of July 20, 2025 –
86 (76 children) cases of death by starvation have been reported, 18 of them in the past 24 hours.
Sources: Addameer, Al Jazeera, Amar Assadi Telegram, Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, DCI - Palestine, Democracy Now, Haaretz, IDF (Israel Defence Forces), HRANA-Human Rights Activists News Agency, International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, The Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), Jordan Valley Activists (Media groups), Letters of American healthcare workers who worked in Gaza, Local Call, OCHA OPT, Looking the Occupation in the Eye, Masafering (Outside the Herd), Middle East Eye, Ministry of Public Health – Gaza, Ministry of Public Health - Lebanon, Palestinian Health Ministry, Palestine Datasets, Palestine Red Crescent Society, Quds News, South Hebron Mountain Activists (Media groups), Tasnim News Agency, Tech for Palestine, UNICEF, Wafa News Agency, WHO, yNet, Zirat War.