Template:Israel–Hamas war casualties
As of 16 October 2024[update], over 44,000 people (42,409 Palestinian[1] and 1,706 Israeli)[19] have been reported as killed in the Israel–Hamas war, including 128-139 journalists and media workers (123-129 Palestinian, 2-4 Israeli, 3-5 Lebanese and 1 Syrian) according to Committee to Protect Journalists and International Federation of Journalists.[20][21]120 academics[22] and over 224 humanitarian aid workers, including 179 employees of UNRWA.[23]
The vast majority of casualties have been in the Gaza Strip. The Gaza Health Ministry (GHM) total is of all recorded deaths directly due to the war, while the demographic breakdown is a subset of those who have been identified individually.[24][25] On 17 September 2024, the GHM published the names, gender and birth date of 34,344 individual Palestinians whose identities were confirmed. This reflects more than 80% of the casualties reported so far; of these, 60% were not men of fighting age.[24] The GHM count does not include those who have died from "preventable disease, malnutrition and other consequences of the war".[26] An analysis by the Gaza Health Projections Working Group predicted thousands of excess deaths from disease and birth complications.[27] According to a PCPSR report, over 60% of Gazans have lost family members since 7 October 2023.[28][29]
The 7 October attacks on Israel killed 1,195 people, including 815 civilians.[2] A further 251 persons were taken hostage during the initial attack on Israel to the Gaza Strip.[30][31][32] A further 479 Palestinians, including 116 children, and 9 Israelis have been killed in the occupied West Bank (including East Jerusalem).[1] Casualties have also occurred in other parts of Israel, as well as in southern Lebanon,[33] Syria,[34] Yemen,[35] and Iran.[36]
According to a letter sent to President Joseph R. Biden, Vice President Kamala D. Harris, and others on October 2, 2024 by 99 American healthcare workers who have served in the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, and cited in a study from the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University, based on starvation standards by the United States-funded Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, according to the most conservative estimate that they could calculate based on the available data, at least 62,413 people in Gaza have thus far died from starvation, most of them young children, as well as at least 5,000 estimated deaths from lack of access to care for chronic diseases.[37][38][39]
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See also
References
- ^ a b "Reported impact snapshot | Gaza Strip (16 October 2024)". UN OCHA. Retrieved 18 October 2024.
- ^ a b "October 7 Crimes Against Humanity, War Crimes by Hamas-led Groups". Human Rights Watch. 2024-07-17. Archived from the original on 2024-09-24. Retrieved 2024-09-24.
- ^ "Bodies of Israeli hostages were retrieved from Gaza tunnel, military says". Yahoo News. 2024-07-25. Archived from the original on 2024-09-19. Retrieved 2024-09-24.
- ^ Fabian, Emanuel; Spiro, Amy (2024-08-06). "Final unaccounted for October 7 victim died in onslaught, IDF confirms". The Times of Israel. Archived from the original on 2024-09-21. Retrieved 2024-09-24.
- ^ Karni, Dana; Harvey, Lex; Fox, Kara (2024-08-20). "Bodies of six Israeli hostages retrieved from Gaza, Israel says". CNN. Archived from the original on 2024-09-22. Retrieved 2024-09-24.
- ^ a b Fabian, Emanuel (1 September 2024). "Bodies of 6 hostages, murdered by Hamas just days ago, found in Rafah – IDF". The Times of Israel. Archived from the original on 2024-09-19. Retrieved 1 September 2024.
- ^ "New Tally Puts Oct 7 Attack Death Toll In Israel At 1,189". Barron's. 28 May 2024. Archived from the original on 2024-09-23.
- ^ "Israel strike in south Lebanon kills Hamas commander". France 24. 9 August 2024. Archived from the original on 2024-09-24. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
- ^ Fabian, Emanuel (2024-08-09). "Man dies from wounds caused by defective Iron Dome missile amid Hezbollah drone attack". The Times of Israel. Archived from the original on 2024-09-21. Retrieved 2024-09-24.
- ^ "Data on casualties". United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs – occupied Palestinian territory (OCHAoPt). Archived from the original on 12 October 2023. Retrieved 12 October 2023.
- ^ Hasson, Nir (30 November 2023). "Israeli Soldiers Who Killed Jerusalem Terrorists Shoot Dead Civilian". Haaretz. Archived from the original on 2023-12-01. Retrieved 1 December 2023.
- ^ Friedson, Yael (25 January 2024). "East Jerusalem Resident Dies of Wounds Sustained in West Bank Attack Earlier in January". Haaretz. Archived from the original on 2024-01-25. Retrieved 25 July 2024.
- ^ "Israeli Security Guard Killed by Palestinian in West Bank Attack". Haaretz. 2024-08-18.
- ^ "Defense Ministry contractor succumbs to wounds sustained in southern Gaza mortar attack". The Times of Israel. Archived from the original on 2024-05-15.
- ^ ToI Staff (19 July 2024). "Drone explodes in central Tel Aviv, killing man and wounding several others". The Times of Israel.
- ^ "Three Israeli civilians shot dead at Allenby Crossing between West Bank and Jordan". CNN. 2024-09-08.
- ^ Fabian, Emanuel. "Authorities name 715 soldiers, 66 police officers killed in Gaza war". The Times of Israel. Archived from the original on 8 October 2023. Retrieved 29 May 2024.
- ^ "Swords of Iron: Israel Police, Security Forces (Shabak) and First Responders Casualties". Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Government of Israel. Retrieved 25 July 2024.
- ^ Including:
- 915 civilians killed
- 828 on October 7[2][3][4][5][6] (including 258 foreign or dual national citizens and 14+ hostages in Gaza)[7]
- 33 additional hostages in Gaza thought dead[6]
- 27 on the Lebanese border[8][9]
- 3 in Alexandria, Egypt
- 14 in the West Bank and Israel by 11 August 2024 (per OCHA oPt)[10] not including 1 mistakenly killed by Israeli forces in Jerusalem[11] and 3 killed by militants (2 near Ofra[12] and 1 near Kedumim),[13] bringing the total to 18 conflict-related deaths for the period
- 1 in Rafah, Gaza Strip[14]
- 1 in Tel Aviv[15]
- 3 in Allenby Bridge[16]
- 791 security forces killed[17]
- 715 soldiers
- 66 Israel Police officers
- 10 Shin Bet personnel[18]
- 915 civilians killed
- ^ "One year and climbing: Israel responsible for record journalist death toll". Committee to Protect Journalists. 4 October 2024. Retrieved 7 October 2024.
- ^ "War in Gaza". International Federation of Journalists. 2024-10-04. Retrieved 2024-09-10.
- ^ Rachel Hall, ‘I am physically here, but mentally in Gaza’ says lecturer now living in UK The Guardian 10 October 2024
- ^ "The IDF is supposed to protect aid workers. Aid agencies say the Israeli military has been attacking them for months". NBC News. 6 April 2024. Retrieved 8 April 2024.
- ^ a b Graham-Harrison, Emma (2024-09-17). "Gaza publishes identities of 34,344 Palestinians killed in war with Israel". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-09-24.
- ^ "UN seemingly halves estimate of Gazan women, children killed". The Jerusalem Post. 11 May 2024. Retrieved 13 May 2024.
- ^ "Why the U.N. revised the numbers of women and children killed in Gaza". NPR. 15 May 2024. Retrieved 19 May 2024.
- ^ Zeina Jamaluddine, Zhixi Chen, Hanan Abukmail, Sarah Aly, Shatha Elnakib, Gregory Barnsley et al. (2024). Crisis in Gaza: Scenario-based health impact projections. Report One: 7 February to 6 August 2024. London, Baltimore: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Johns Hopkins University.
- ^ Azza Guergues, 100,000 Palestinians Are Surviving in Egypt Without Refugee Status, Foreign Policy 15 August 2024
- ^ "Hostilities in the Gaza Strip and Israel - reported impact | Day 215". United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - occupied Palestinian territory. 8 May 2024. Retrieved 13 May 2024.
- ^ Zion, Ilan Ben. "Israeli Negotiator Says Tens Of Gaza Hostages 'Alive With Certainty'". Barron's. Archived from the original on 2024-06-18. Retrieved 2024-09-23.
- ^ Vinograd, Cassandra; Kershner, Isabel (2 November 2023). "Israel's Attackers Took About 240 Hostages. Here's What to Know About Them". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 7 November 2023. Retrieved 7 November 2023.
- ^ "Images of the Mass Kidnapping of Israelis by Hamas". The Atlantic. 9 October 2023. Archived from the original on 10 October 2023. Retrieved 18 October 2023.
- ^ Shurafa, Wafaa; Mroue, Bassem (11 November 2023). "Fighting intensifies at Gaza's largest hospital. Its director says patients have died because the power is out". AP News. Retrieved 11 November 2023.
- ^ "Israeli airstrikes near Syria's Aleppo kill several, including an Iranian adviser, reports say". AP News. 2024-06-03. Archived from the original on 2024-09-27. Retrieved 2024-08-30.
- ^ "Israel says it struck Yemen's Hodeidah in response to Houthi attacks". Al Jazeera. 2024-07-20. Retrieved 2024-08-28.
- ^ Sewell, Abby (2024-07-31). "Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh is killed in Iran by an alleged Israeli strike, threatening escalation". Associated Press. Archived from the original on 2024-07-31. Retrieved 2024-07-31.
- ^ Hurwitz, Sophie (October 8, 2024). "Report: In One Year, More Than 100,000 Deaths in Gaza—Aided by $17.9 Billion From the US". Mother Jones. Retrieved October 17, 2024.
Brown University's Costs of War Project calculated "the money that's spent on war, and the toll on human lives" after a year of war in Gaza. The numbers are staggering.
- ^ Stamatopoulou-Robbins, Sophia (October 7, 2024). "The Human Toll: Indirect Deaths from War in Gaza and the West Bank, October 7, 2023 Forward" (PDF). Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University. Retrieved October 17, 2024.
In addition to killing people directly through traumatic injuries, wars cause "indirect deaths" by destroying, damaging, or causing deterioration of economic, social, psychological and health conditions. Most expansively, this report describes the causal pathways that can be expected to lead to far larger numbers of indirect deaths. These deaths result from diseases and other population-level health effects that stem from war's destruction of public infrastructure and livelihood sources, reduced access to water and sanitation, environmental damage, and other such factors. This report builds on a foundation of previous Costs of War research for its framework and methodology in covering the most significant chains of impact, or causal pathways, to indirect war deaths in Gaza and the West Bank. Unlike in combat, these deaths do not necessarily occur immediately or in the close aftermath of the battles which many observers focus on. While it will take years to assess the full extent of these population-level health effects, they will inevitably lead to far higher numbers of deaths than direct violence.
- ^ "Appendix to letter of October 2, 2024 re: American physicians observations from the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023" (PDF). gazahealthcareletters.org. Gaza Healthcare Letters. October 2, 2024. Retrieved October 17, 2024.
These are the most conservative estimates of the death toll that can be made with the given available data as of September 30, 2024. It is highly likely that the real number of deaths in Gaza from this conflict is far higher than this most conservative estimate. Without an immediate ceasefire the death toll will only continue to mount, especially among young children.