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Gaza Ministry of Health

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Dec 12, 2025
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how many people were killed in gaza

Available reporting and studies give multiple, differing tallies of people killed in Gaza: the Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health and Palestinian agencies reported totals just above 70,000 in December ...

Dec 14, 2025
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How many children have been killed in Gaza since October 7, 2023 according to UN and human rights groups?

UN agencies and human-rights groups report that child casualties in Gaza since 7 October 2023 run into the tens of thousands when combining killed and injured: UNICEF said “more than 50,000 children h...

Dec 17, 2025
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number of hamas combatants killed

Estimates of how many Hamas combatants have been killed in the Gaza war vary widely—from official Israeli claims of up to about 20,000, to evidence-based tallies of fewer than 9,000 named fighters—bec...

Dec 15, 2025

What are the latest UN and WHO death toll estimates for Gaza (December 2025)?

The most recent UN-linked tallies cite Gaza fatalities in the tens of thousands and track with the Gaza Ministry of Health’s running count used by UN agencies: OCHA and UNRWA have relayed MoH figures ...

Nov 15, 2025

How many women and children were killed in Palestine since October 7?

Available sources give multiple, differing tallies for Palestinians killed since 7 October 2023 and breakouts for children and women vary by publisher and methodology: the Gaza Ministry of Health repo...

Jan 16, 2026

which source is the most accurate for deaths in gaza

The Gaza Ministry of Health (MoH) is the single most frequently cited and institutionally accepted source for the overall death toll in Gaza and is treated as the primary daily tally by the UN and WHO...

Dec 16, 2025

How many civilians versus combatants have been killed in Gaza since October 2023?

Different tallies and academic studies disagree sharply on how many Gaza fatalities since 7 October 2023 were civilians versus combatants. Gaza health authorities and the UN report tens of thousands o...

Jan 29, 2026

How many civilian casualties have been reported in the Gaza war since 2021?

in since 2021 cannot be collapsed into a single uncontested tally: verified incident-level counts from 2021 (May) and large, contested tallies since October 2023 exist, and independent researchers giv...

Dec 17, 2025

What are the UN and WHO reported civilian vs. combatant death breakdowns in Gaza as of December 2025?

Available UN/WHO-linked reporting and independent analyses show no single, fully verified civilian-vs.-combatant breakdown for Gaza as of December 2025. UN OCHA and WHO relay Gaza ministry figures but...

Jan 25, 2026

How have UN agencies changed their casualty reporting practices during the Gaza conflict and why?

UN agencies—principally and agencies that aggregate figures—shifted from relaying unqualified aggregate counts toward separating “reported” totals from a smaller subset of fully identified casualties,...

Nov 6, 2025

How many Palestinian casualties have been reported since 2021?

Since 2021 the published accounts portray : limited but verifiable West Bank figures count in the low thousands, while Gaza figures tied to the October 7, 2023 war run from depending on the reporting ...

Jan 30, 2026

Birth rates in Gaza

remain relatively high by global standards but have been falling from the very high levels of the early 2000s; estimates for fertility range from roughly 3.3 to 4.4 children per woman depending on the...

Jan 14, 2026

why are there reports of more than 600000 palestinians killed so far due to isreal

Multiple authoritative sources compiled here report Palestinian deaths in the tens of thousands since 7 October 2023—not anywhere near 600,000—and wide public circulation of a 600,000+ figure appears ...

Dec 8, 2025

What evidence supports claims of Israel killing civilians in recent Palestinian territories?

Multiple independent and rights organizations, media investigations and casualty databases report very high Palestinian civilian deaths in Gaza and the West Bank during the 2023–2025 conflict; UN and ...

Jan 27, 2026

What independent methods (satellite imagery, list‑matching, cemetery records) have been used to cross‑check Gaza casualty claims?

Independent researchers and institutions have used a mix of , list‑matching and name‑level cross‑checks, cemetery and burial monitoring, , and open‑source video/forensic techniques to test and context...

Jan 11, 2026

What have peer‑reviewed studies estimated for direct and indirect deaths in Gaza up to the end of 2024 and what methodologies did they use?

Two peer‑reviewed demographic and epidemiological studies produce converging but not identical estimates of direct (violent/traumatic) deaths in Gaza through the end of 2024: a pseudo‑Bayesian demogra...

Nov 15, 2025

What are the casualty figures for Palestinians by Gaza Strip governorate and West Bank since Oct 2023–Nov 2025?

Available reporting shows large, but varying tallies of Palestinian fatalities across the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank (including East Jerusalem) for the period 7 October 2023–Nov 2025. Healt...

Feb 6, 2026

How do Israeli government casualty counts and classifications compare with UN and Gaza Ministry figures?

Independent tallies of deaths from the -casualty-estimates">Gaza war differ sharply depending on source and method: — relayed by — published large overall casualty totals without classifying status, w...

Feb 2, 2026

How many civilians and combatants have independent organizations verified died in Gaza since October 2023, and how do methodologies differ?

Independent, third‑party tallies of since October 7, 2023 remain contested: systems say they only publish casualty records once incidents are independently verified , while composite databases like us...

Dec 20, 2025

Israeli defense force killing Palestinians

Israeli military operations in Gaza and the occupied West Bank have resulted in very high Palestinian fatalities, with multiple independent and media analyses finding a majority of those killed to be ...