Data, October 7, 2023 - June 30, 2025 – The Gaza Strip
- Adi Ronen Argov
- Jul 1
- 4 min read
Palestinians killed
‣ The following data are based on reports by the Gaza Ministry of Health and include the number of bodies to hospitals or registered by family members. They do NOT include those dying not as a result of “violent” action, unreported or missing;
‣ The number of missing persons is estimated at about 11,000;
‣ According to estimates publicized lately, the number of persons killed stands at about 100,000.
‣ 57,418 Palestinians killed (updated on July 5, 2925), 56% of them women and children;
◦ Of these, 2,505 in June 2025 alone.
‣ Of the persons killed:
1. Children as of June 14, 2025 of whom
◦ 17,127 children killed, among them:
Less than 6-months old | Less than 12-months old | 2-5 years old |
486 | 941 | 4,520 |
◦ 31% of the total number of killed persons are children.
2. Adults:
Women | Elderly | Men |
9,120 | 4,137 | 24,818 |
3. Members of medical and rescue teams:
Medical team members | First responders | Aid organizations workers |
1,581 | 122 | 479 |
*Of these, 107 since the beginning of 2025.
◦ 41, 329 orphans (as of May 2025) of at least one parent, 1,945 of both;
◦ 13,700 families lost at least one parent;
◦ 2,483 families (as of April 2025) totally wiped out;
◦ 5,620 families (as of April 2025) with one survivor only.
‣ Since May 27, 2025 (GHF aid hubs opened), 751 Palestinians killed while waiting for aid:

◦ 16% of those killed are children.
‣ Since March 18, 2025 (when Israel collapsed the ceasefire), 6,860 Palestinians have been killed.
Israelis killed
‣ 1,637 Israelis and foreign nationals were killed, of these 437 Israeli soldiers in the ground invasion since the end of October 2023;
‣ Among those killed, 38 were minors;
‣ 30 soldiers killed since March 18, 2025.
Palestinians incarcerated and taken hostage
1. No precise data about the number of Palestinians incarcerated in Gaza since October 7, 2023. The number is estimated in the thousands.
‣ Among those incarcerated, 360 members of medical teams are known;
‣ Reports of extremely harsh incarceration conditions – torture, starvation and harassment;
‣ About 50 of persons known as incarcerated have died in prison.
2. As of April 2025, 1,506 incarcerated persons were released, of these 43 children and 84 women.
Israelis kidnapped
1. On October 7, 2023, 251 men, women and children were kidnapped.
‣ 205 of them have been returned, alive or dead. Most of them in a deal (including kidnapped persons who were there earlier).
2. In the Gaza Strip, 50 persons are held of whom 28 have been established as dead.
‣ Reports of those returning and by signs of life of those still held speak of hostages held in harsh conditions, suffering harassment and starvation.
Palestinians wounded
1. 136,261 Palestinian wounded, 7,835 of them during June 2025 alone.
‣ Since March 18, 2025, 24,220 Palestinians were wounded;
‣ Since May 27, 2025, 4,931 persons were wounded while waiting for food;
2. Over 10,000 await evacuation since March 18, 2025. Only 339 have been evacuated.
Israelis wounded
1. On October 7, 2023, about 5,400 persons were wounded.
2. Since the ground invasion of the Gaza Strip, 2,745 soldiers have been wounded. 161 wounded since March 18, 2025.
Displaced persons
1. Since October 7, 2023 – about 2 million displaced Palestinians, most of them displaced several times.
2. Since March 8, 2025 - 714,000 displaced by about 50 displacement orders.
‣ 85% of the Gaza Strip is under military rule and displacement orders;
◦ The displaced population is directed to a 9 sq.km. in Al Mawasi (south-eastern part of the Strip). About half a million persons crowd there (a crowding of about 48,000 persons per square kilometer), most of them in tents;
◦ Between March 18 and June 16, 2025, 112 attacks were documented in Al Mawasi, the area defined as “safe”, killing 380 persons, of whom 158 are women and children;
◦ Between March 18 and July 1, 2025, 64 school sheltering displaced persons were attacked by Israel.
Destruction
1. Data refers to either total or significant destruction:
‣ 92% of residences;
‣ 70% of structures;
‣ 83% of farmland;
‣ 83% of water wells;
‣ 71% of the greenhouses;
‣ 72% of fishing boats;
‣ 89% of desalination plants, water pumping and sanitation;
‣ 88% of schools;
‣ 50% of hospitals working partially;
‣ 62% of field hospitals working partially;
‣ 38% of clinics working partially.
2. Fuel supply has run out, severely damaging the activity of Intensive Care Units, dialysis, water pumps, rescue vehicles, all this in addition to alternating power cuts and blackouts of internet services.
Hunger and health crisis
1. 93% of the population suffer a lack of clean water.
2. According to the UN scales of hunger distress, the entire Gazan population faces a stage-3 hunger crisis until September 2025:
‣ One million are already at stage-4;
‣ 475,000 are at the highest stage-5.
‣ The current situation:
◦ Steep rise in reported malnutrition of children aged 6-months to 5-years. Since March, this is a rise of 400%;
◦ A steep rise in reports of intestinal disease worsening risk of malnutrition.
‣ According to the World Health Organization:
◦ 112 children in a daily average are treated for problems of malnutrition;
◦ 66 children have already died of starvation and dehydration;
◦ Israel prevents the entry of infant milk formulas.
3. Over 337 new cases of meningitis, 250 of them viral.
4. 600 persons who suffer from kidney disfunction died for lack of appropriate treatment (50% of all persons diagnosed as such in the Gaza Strip).
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.
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