Medical sources reported today, Wednesday, that the death toll in the Gaza Strip has risen to 66,225, the majority being children and women, since the start of the Israeli occupation aggression on October 7, 2023.
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Gaza death toll reaches 65,926 since start of Israeli aggression in October 2023 – Medical sources
GAZA, September 27, 2025 (WAFA) – The death toll in the Gaza Strip has reached 65,926, the majority of whom were women and children, since the beginning of the Israeli aggression in October 2023. At least 167,783 others have also been injured.
This toll remains incomplete, as many victims remain trapped under rubble, inaccessible to ambulance and rescue crews.
Gaza Ministry of Health updates official death toll from Israel’s war to 65,549
That is since the war began on October 7, 2023. The ministry added that 167,518 people had been injured.
Death toll from Israeli aggression on Gaza rises to 65,502
The death toll from the Israeli occupation‘s aggression on the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7, 2023, has risen to 65,502 martyrs, in addition to 167,367 wounded, the majority of whom are children and women.
In a statement on Thursday, the Ministry of Health in Gaza confirmed that 83 martyrs and 216 wounded arrived at Gaza Strip hospitals over the past 24 hours. The death toll since March 18, when the occupation violated the ceasefire agreement, has reached 12,939 martyrs and 55,335 wounded.
Gaza death toll rises to 65,427 amid ongoing Israeli aggression
CAIRO – 25 September 2025: The Ministry of Health in Gaza announced on Thursday that the death toll from the Israeli aggression, ongoing since October 7, 2023, has climbed to 65,427 martyrs and 167,376 wounded.
Death Toll in Gaza Rises to 65,283
last updated: Sep 21,2025
Medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Sunday that the death toll from the ongoing Israeli attacks has reached 65,283, with 166,575 injuries since October 7, 2023.
Gaza death toll reaches 65,141 since onset of Israeli aggression in October 2023 – Medical sources
GAZA, September 18, 2025 (WAFA) – The death toll in the Gaza Strip has reached 65,141, the majority of whom were women and children, since the beginning of the Israeli aggression in October 2023. At least 165,925others have also been injured.
This toll remains incomplete, as many victims remain trapped under rubble, inaccessible to ambulance and rescue crews.
Medical sources confirmed that since Israel broke its ceasefire agreement and resumed its aggression on the Gaza Strip on March 18, 2025, at least 12,590 civilians have been killed and 53,884 others have been injured.
The Architecture of Genocidal Starvation in Gaza,March – August 2025
In its 28 March 2024 order in the case of South Africa v. Israel, making explicit reference to the ‘catastrophic humanitarian situation’ in Gaza, the International Court of Justice instructed the State of Israel to:
‘Take all necessary and e ective measures to ensure, without delay, in full co-operation with the United Nations, the unhindered provision at scale by all concerned of urgently needed basic services and humanitarian assistance, including food, water, electricity, fuel, shelter, clothing, hygiene and sanitation requirements, as well as medical supplies and medical care to Palestinians throughout Gaza, including by increasing the capacity and number of land crossing points and maintaining them open for as long as necessary.’
The Court indicated that Israel was required to take these measures to comply with its obligations under the Genocide Convention and raised particular concern regarding ‘the spread of famine and starvation’.
In the sixteen months since the Court issued this order, Israel has continued to pursue policies which have the foreseeable outcome of the destruction of the Palestinian people of Gaza.
This report focuses on an Israeli system of aid distribution that ostensibly feeds Palestinians in Gaza, while in fact, according to our analysis, constituting a programme of intentional mass starvation on two levels: first, the starvation of individuals through the provision of starvation rations or no rations at all, and second, the use of mass starvation as a means of destroying the social order among the population of Gaza as a whole, towards the
dismantling of the foundations of a functioning society in the region, and the separation of that population from its land.
Our findings show how Israel has systematically dismantled the long-standing and e ective ‘civilian model’ of aid distribution through aid organisations and the local community. In its place, Israel has established a ‘military model’ of aid distribution which carries out starvation rationing. Through the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) and airdropped aid, Israel has created dependency upon a system which is, we conclude, deadly by design.
Report Details Israel‘s ‚Architecture of Genocidal Starvation‘ in Gaza
Aug 22, 2025
As the world‘s leading authority on hunger crises officially declared a catastrophic famine in Gaza, a report published Friday details how Israel has dismantled the time-tested civilian aid distribution model and replaced it with a military-based system in which many Palestinians are not only dying from starvation but are also being killed while trying to obtain food.
Forensic Architecture (FA)—a multidisciplinary research group based at Goldsmiths, University of London—and World Peace Foundation (WPF), a philanthropic organization affiliated with the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in Massachusetts—published The Architecture of Genocidal Starvation in Gaza, March-August 2025, „revealing how… Israel has dismantled the proven and internationally-backed ‚civilian model‘ of aid distribution, replacing it with a ‚military model‘ which furthers Israel‘s military and political objectives in Gaza while starving the region‘ss civilian population.“
REPORT via Channel 13: Leaked Israeli Records Show Government Pursued Starvation Strategy to Force Hamas Surrender
Channel 13 has published internal Israeli government transcripts from March 2025 revealing that Israel’s war cabinet knowingly restricted all humanitarian aid to Gaza in hopes it would break Hamas—a strategy that inflicted mass suffering but failed to deliver desired results. The records also show that Israel was not met with resistance or bad faith in negotiations with Hamas — yet it broke the ceasefire and escalated anyway.
Israeli security cabinet chose starvation policy in Gaza over deal to free captives: Report
Hebrew media cited leaked documents showing that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu actively pursued a policy of starvation in a bid to bring about Hamas’s surrender.
The documents also show that Netanyahu refused to move forward with Phase 2 of the last ceasefire deal – despite internal warnings urging him to secure a release of captives before returning to fighting.
The documents confirmed that Netanyahu and the war cabinet “instructed the [army] to stop all humanitarian aid and close the Rafah crossing” in early March.
Wednesday‘s death toll surges with 74 killed in 24 hours
At least 74 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces in the last 24 hours, with another 391 injured, Gaza‘s health ministry is reporting.
It added that emergency teams also recovered the bodies of five people killed in earlier strikes.
Gaza death toll rises to 55,959 as Israeli continues the genocide
GAZA, June 22, 2025 (WAFA) – Medical sources said on Sunday that the death toll in the Gaza Strip has risen to 55,959, the majority of whom are children and women, since the start of the Israeli occupation‘s aggression on October 7, 2023.
The same sources added that the death toll has risen to 131,242 since the start of the aggression, while a number of victims remain under the rubble, unable to be reached by ambulance and civil defense crews.
They indicated that 51 slain people (including 3 whose bodies were recovered) and 104 injuries arrived at hospitals in the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours.
‘The Hunger Games’: Inside Israel’s aid death traps for starving Gazans
The day after the massacre on Al-Rashid Street that claimed Hatem Shaldan’s life, even larger crowds gathered in the same spot, including 17-year-old Muhammad Abu Sharia, who arrived with four relatives. The few aid trucks that arrived that week gave a sliver of hope to starving families.
Abu Sharia lives with his family of nine in their partially destroyed home in southern Gaza City, the only son among six sisters. “My family didn’t want me to go at first,” he said. “But we’ve been starving for two months.”
At 10 p.m., he made his way to Al-Rashid Street, where crowds had gathered on the sand near the shore, waiting for aid trucks. People shared warnings in hushed voices: “Stay behind the trucks. Don’t run in front — you might get crushed.”
Abu Sharia was shocked by what he saw. “Elderly people, women, children, all just waiting for a chance at flour.” Then, without warning, artillery shells began falling around them.
Panic broke out. Some fled. Others, like Abu Sharia, sprinted toward the trucks. “People were being killed and wounded, but no one stopped. Everyone just kept running for the flour.”
He managed to grab a bag lying beside a dead body, but only made it a few meters before a gang of four men with knives surrounded him and threatened to kill him if he didn’t hand it over. He let it go.
Still hoping to reach another truck, he waited hours longer. Then he saw people shouting, “More aid has arrived!” The trucks rolled in, barely slowing down as crowds swarmed them. “I saw a man fall under one [truck] and get his head crushed.” With ambulances too far away to approach for fear of Israeli airstrikes, the wounded and dead were dragged away by donkey carts and tuk-tuks.
48 Palestinians killed since dawn in ongoing Israeli strikes on Gaza
GAZA, June 20, 2025 (WAFA) – At least 48 Palestinians have been killed since the early hours of Friday as Israeli airstrikes and gunfire continue to pound various areas across the Gaza Strip, according to medical sources.
Palestinian death toll in Gaza rises to 55,706
The Palestinian death toll in the war-torn Gaza Strip has so far risen to 55,706, with 130,101 others injured, since the outbreak of the conflict between Hamas and Israel on Oct 7, 2023, said Gaza‘s health authorities on Thursday.
Over the past 24 hours, Israeli attacks have claimed 69 more Palestinian lives and injured 221 others, according to Gaza‘s health authorities.
Death toll in Gaza rises to 75 since dawn
Israeli shelling has killed over 75 people, including children, across the Gaza Strip since Thursday morning, local media reported.
Dozens of injuries were recorded, some of them critical, with aid workers amongst the victims of the Israeli attacks.
Gaza death toll tops 55,600 as Israel continues its brutal assault on Palestinians
At least 55,637 Palestinians have been killed in Israel‘s genocidal war in the Gaza Strip since October 2023, the Health Ministry said on Wednesday.
A ministry statement said that 144 bodies were brought to hospitals in the last 24 hours, while 560 people were injured, taking the total number of injuries in the Israeli onslaught to 129,880.
Israeli forces kill 69 Palestinians in Gaza, including 29 seeking aid
The Israeli military, when asked for comment, told the Reuters news agency that it was looking into the reported deaths of people waiting for food aid.
Death toll across Gaza Strip surges to 55,493, over 129,320 injured
GAZA, June 17, 2025 (WAFA) – Medical sources in Gaza announced on Tuesday that the death toll from Israel’s ongoing aggression on the Strip has risen to 55,493, the majority of whom are women and children, since the start of the war on October 7, 2023.
Tuesday death toll in Gaza rises to 89
At least 89 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn, with at least 80 killed in Israeli ambushes at US-run aid distribution centres in Khan Younis and Rafah, the Palestinian health ministry has said in a statement.
Gaza death toll surges to 55,432 from Israeli bombardment
The figures bring the number of people killed in the territory since the start of the conflict in October 2023 to 55,432, with another 128,923 wounded.
Israel has killed 5,139 Palestinians and injured 16,882 others since breaking a ceasefire with Hamas in March.
Gaza death toll reaches 54,880 since start of Israeli aggression in October 2023 – Medical sources
The death toll in the Gaza Strip has reached 54,880, the majority of whom were women and children, since the beginning of the Israeli aggression in October 2023. At least 126,227 others have also been injured.
Medical sources confirmed that of the total casualties, 4,603 civilians have been killed and 14,186 have been injured since March 18, 2025, when the Israeli occupation resumed its aggression on the Gaza Strip after breaking the ceasefire agreement.
Exclusive: Hamas offers to release ten captives over sixty days in three stages
The plan would see Hamas release ten living Israeli captives and the remains of 18 others in three phases. For the living captives four on day one, two on day 30, and four on day 60. As for the bodies, six will be returned on day ten, another six on day 30, and the remaining six on day 50.
In return, Israeli forces would begin withdrawing to positions held before 2 March 2025.
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“Witkoff’s only concern is the release of the Israeli captives, but he shows a complete disregard for the continuous killing of thousands Palestinian civilians, majority of whom are women and children, and the suffering of the spread of famine for the two million Palestinians in Gaza“ the Palestinian source noted.
“Hamas felt Witkoff betrayed them twice. The first when Israel broke the US guaranteed deal on 2 March by imposing the embargo on aid and then returning to full blown war on 18 March, with Witkoff’s and the American administration’s full support and cover,“ the source said.
„And the second time, when Hamas released the American-Israeli soldier with an expectation of humanitarian relief and a new approach towards the negotiations, which clearly has not been the case,” they added.
Palestine presents case at ICJ on Israel‘s attacks on UN agencies
The case was prompted by Israeli bills outlawing the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) in October 2024, an event that sparked global outrage and calls for unseating Israel from the UN due to accusations that it violated the founding UN charter, particularly the privileges and immunities enjoyed by UN agencies.
The ICJ hearings coincide with Israel’s continuing its ban on humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip since 2 March (over 50 days) and the intensification of military attacks that have killed hundreds of civilians since the collapse of ceasefire on 18 March.
Death toll across Gaza Strip surges to 50,183, over 113,828 injured
RAMALLAH, March, 26, 2025 (WAFA) – The death toll since the beginning of the Israeli aggression on Gaza on October 7, 2023, has reached 50,183. Over 113,828 others have also been wounded, according to medical sources.
Since the resumption of the Israeli offensive on March 18, 2025, more than 750 civilians have been killed, and nearly 1,400 others have been injured, the majority of whom are women and children. Israeli airstrikes, drone attacks and artillery bombardments continue to target homes, hospitals, facilities, refugee tents, vehicles and civilian gatherings.
According to medical sources, around 39 slain Palestinians have brought to Gaza Strip hospitals, with nearly 124 civilians reported injured in the past 24 hours.
Gaza health ministry says 830 killed since Israel resumed strikes
According to the ministry‘s statement, the figure includes 38 people killed in the past 24 hours. It also reported that the overall death toll has reached 50,183 since the war began on 7 October 2023.
Israel kills Al Jazeera and Palestine Today journalists in separate attacks in Gaza
Israel killed two Palestinian journalists in separate attacks in Gaza on Monday, bringing the total number of press workers killed in the Palestinian territory since October 2023 to 208.
Palestine Today correspondent Mohammad Mansour was killed in an air strike north of Khan Younis while Al Jazeera Mubasher correspondent Hussam Shabat was hit in his car in Salah al-Din Street in the north of the enclave.
Israeli attacks kill 61 in Gaza in 24 hours, health officials say
At least 61 Palestinians have been killed in the past day as Israel‘s bombardment of Gaza continues, the Health Ministry reports.
The total death toll has now surpassed 50,082, with more than 113,408 wounded.
50,000 killed in Gaza since start of Israel-Hamas war, health ministry says
Authorities in Gaza do not distinguish between civilians and Hamas fighters when reporting casualty figures, but the health ministry and the United Nations say the majority of deaths are women and children. And the true toll could be much higher, with many thousands believed to still be under the rubble.
Netanyahu leads Israel into constitutional crisis days after shattering ceasefire
Defence minister‘s threats to annex Gaza distract from legislative coup d‘état at home
Wir sind schockiert und traurig über den Tod unseres Kollegen Alaa Abd-Elsalam Ali Okal. Er wurde am 18. März bei einem israelischen Luftangriff auf sein Wohnhaus in Deir al-Balah getötet. Wir sind in Gedanken bei seiner Familie und unseren Kolleg*innen in #Gaza.
MSF says 10th staff member killed in Gaza’s Deir el-Balah
Doctors Without Borders, known by its French acronym MSF, has issued a statement saying it’s mourning its 10th staff member killed since Israel’s war started in Gaza.
“MSF is shocked and saddened by the killing of our colleague Alaa Abd-Elsalam Ali Okal by an Israeli air strike on his apartment building in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza,” it said.
“Along with hundreds of others across the Gaza Strip, Alaa Abd-Elsalam Ali Okal was killed in the early morning of 18 March following the resumption of Israeli attacks.”