Data · Gaza & the occupied West Bank
The Figures, and Where They Come From
A continuously updated record of reported casualties since 7 October 2023. These are not our counts — they are the officially reported totals, pulled automatically from the source datasets. What we add is the part that usually goes missing: the provenance of every number, and what it can and cannot tell you.
Source reporting date: 16 September 2026
Day 1,075 since 7 October 2023
Updated automatically every six hours
Killed · Gaza
73,795
Reported, direct deaths only
Injured · Gaza
174,869
Cumulative since Oct 2023
Children killed
20,179
Of the Gaza total
Women killed
12,500
Of the Gaza total
Killed · West Bank
1,123
Incl. 240 children
The trajectory
Cumulative deaths reported in Gaza
Every reported day from 7 October 2023 to 16 September 2026 — 1,076 days of reporting. Where officials published no report, the series uses the source's extrapolated value so the line has no artificial gaps; those days are estimates between known points, not counts.
Oct 2023
Peak: 73,795 reported deaths
Sep 2026
The breakdown
By territory and by group
Gaza Strip
Ministry of Health
Killed
73,795
Injured
174,869
Children
20,179
Women
12,500
Medical personnel
1,701
Civil defence
140
Journalists & media workers
262
West Bank
UN OCHA
Killed
1,123
Injured
11,726
Children killed
240
Children injured
1,936
Settler attacks recorded
4,625
Identified dead
Named records
Names on the list
72,835
Girls
8,834
Boys
12,803
Women
11,733
Men
36,067
Senior women
1,309
Senior men
2,089
The age profile
Who the named dead were
Derived from the 72,835 individually identified casualties on the Ministry of Health's named list — not from the headline totals. Because each record carries a date of birth, this is the one part of the data that can be broken down by age rather than by the broad "children / women" categories used in daily reporting.
Named casualties by age
n = 72,835What this shows
21,637 of the 72,835 named dead — 29.7% — were under 18. Roughly one in seven was under ten.
The age profile matters because it is the part of the record most open to independent testing. Where researchers have checked the ministry's demographic breakdown against separate survivor and obituary data, the composition has broadly held up even while the overall total was found to be undercounted.
Records without a usable date of birth are excluded from these bands, so the totals here will not exactly match the headline figures above.
The named
72,835 people, individually identified
The figures above are counts. This is the list they were drawn from. Each of these 72,835 records is a named individual with a recorded date of birth, published by the Ministry of Health and compiled over successive releases. Below is a random sample of two dozen, redrawn on every page load.
Nour Rajab Mohammed Al-Sakhafi
Age 16
Iman Hamed Mansour Madi
Age 25
Ashraf Jamal Ahmed Al-Naqla
Age 42
Abeer Jihad Mahmoud Al-Khatib
Age 26
Hussein Mohammed Mahmoud Al-Daghma
Age 41
Sharifa Ghaleb Mohammed Abu Shamala
Age 26
Iftikhar Shaaban Mahmoud Jaber
Age 67
Yasmin Hani Mohammed Abbas
Age 17
Julie Ramez Suhail Al-Souri
Age 11
Israa Isbeitan Mahmoud Abu Seido
Age 24
Hamed Mohammed Hamed Al-Tayyif
Age 33
Kariman Naja Shahda Duhair
Age 27
Baraa Mansour Yousef Ghaben
Age 19
Ibrahim Atiya Hussein Abu Asr
Age 11
Hanadi Naim Mohammed Al-Aaraj
Age 30
Abdullah Mohammed Ali Hassan Al-Batran
Age 33
Fahmi Bashir Fahmi Ammar
Age 23
Rital Yahya Awad Abdel Wahab
Age 4
Sham Yahya Ahmed Al-Anqah
Age 3
Mohammed Medhat Mohammed Abu Amsha
Age 2
Mohammed Mohammed Marwan Jamal Al-Safadi
Age 39
Karam Ahmed Marwan Nawfal
Age 0
Ali Rami Shahda Al-Najjar
Age 16
Suleiman Wajih Suleiman Qashta
Age 21
This list is an undercount, by its own authors' account.
The ministry's original methodology note stated that it did not include the
missing, those still under rubble, unidentified bodies received by hospitals,
or people buried by their families without passing through a hospital. The
named list will therefore always be smaller than the reported death toll,
and the reported death toll smaller than the true one.
The press
262 journalists and media workers
Recorded by Gaza's Government Media Office. This is also the clearest worked example on this page of why credible sources disagree: the Committee to Protect Journalists maintains a consistently lower count, because it requires two independent sources before adding a name and removes individuals it later establishes were combatants. Neither number is simply wrong — they answer different questions.
Amna Mahmoud Hamid
Program presenter and journalist editor in a number of media outlets.
Mohammed Quraiqa
Al Jazeera correspondent, who was killed in a direct bombing of a journalist tent near...
Mahmoud Qasim
Journalist at Palestine newspaper and its website “Palestine Online”
Anas al-Sharif
Al Jazeera correspondent, who was killed in a direct bombing of a journalist tent near...
Mashal Shahwan
Mohammed Tishreen Yaghi
photojournalist with several media outlets, was martyred in the bombing of a house in...
Anas Abu Shamala
Hamza Abu Salmiya
Mustafa al-Sawwaf
El Sawaf, a Palestinian writer and analyst who contributed to the local news website...
Sami Daoud
who worked as a journalist for Rawafed TV
Mohammed al-Sayed Abu Skhail
broadcaster and editor at Sawt Al-Quds Radio, who was martyred during the crime of...
Hanan Ayyad
Methodology
Where these figures come from
The primary count
Day-to-day totals for Gaza are recorded by the Ministry of Health, drawing on hospital records and, where the health system has broken down, the Government Media Office. The ministry records only deaths it can tie directly to an act of war; deaths from malnutrition or untreated illness are documented separately and are not in these totals.
The aggregation layer
The Palestine Datasets project collects those daily releases into a machine-readable series, recording for every entry whether the figure came from the ministry, the media office, or was missing. That audit trail is why we use it as our feed.
The UN's position
UN OCHA republishes the ministry's totals in its situation updates but is explicit that it relays rather than verifies them, attributing unverified figures to their source. Citing "UN figures" for Gaza casualties is therefore misleading: they are Ministry of Health figures the UN is passing on.
The named-records layer
The age profile and memorial above come from a separate list of individually identified casualties, released periodically as the ministry reconciles its records. Identifying the dead takes far longer than counting them, so this list always lags the headline totals and shows a lower number. That gap is expected, not an error.
Treat these as a floor
Independent analysis published in The Lancet, comparing the ministry's register against separate survivor and obituary data, concluded the true toll over the period studied was materially higher than the registered count — while finding the reported demographic composition accurate. That points to undercounting, not invention.
Figures get revised
Totals move up and down as duplicates are removed and previously unreported deaths confirmed. A number that changes is a sign the process is working. If you cite a figure from this page, cite the reporting date alongside it.
Verify it yourself
The underlying data, unmediated
We would rather you checked these numbers than believed them because we published them. Every figure on this page traces back to one of these:
Primary datasets
Palestine Datasets — summary API The running totals feeding the headline figures on this page. Daily Casualties — Gaza The full time series behind the trend chart, with per-day sourcing. Killed in Gaza — named records The individually identified casualties behind the age profile. Press Killed in Gaza Journalists and media workers, with employer and circumstances.Independent verification
UN OCHA — occupied Palestinian territory Situation updates, West Bank casualties and settler-violence data. Airwars — One Name, Two Lists Incident-level reconciliation of official lists against open sources. Committee to Protect Journalists The stricter, independently verified count of media workers killed. The Lancet — analysis of ministry reporting Peer-reviewed assessment of the register's reliability and undercount.
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hand-entered. Where a figure needs context — as with the press count — we
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