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The Palestinian Ministry of Health placed the overall injury toll at 174,231 while noting that four Palestinians were killed and one more injured in the previous 24 hours. Many additional bodies remain under rubble where ambulances cannot reach them, the ministry said, complicating final counts. Its data draws from hospital records and other sources in the enclave, where verification faces persistent obstacles amid damaged infrastructure. The ministry has regularly issued such updates throughout the conflict that began in October 2023.
Since the ceasefire agreement in October 2025 the ministry has documented at least 1,254 Palestinians killed along with 4,121 injured and 804 bodies recovered from rubble. These post-ceasefire figures reflect continued incidents despite the pause in large-scale operations. The authority maintains daily tracking that incorporates new reports from medical facilities across Gaza. Such incremental updates have formed a consistent element of its public releases for nearly three years.
A UNRWA situation report from mid-July cited the same ministry in recording 73,231 killed and 173,686 injured up to that point, including more than 1,000 fatalities after the ceasefire. The United Nations agency has drawn on these numbers for its humanitarian assessments while acknowledging the difficulties of full verification in active conflict zones. Comparable tallies from other monitoring groups have stayed broadly aligned with the ministry’s evolving totals.
The ministry published names, genders and birth dates for more than 72,000 identified Palestinian victims by March 2026, according to records referenced in multiple compilations. A study published in The Lancet estimated that violent deaths from October 2023 through January 2025 reached 75,200, a figure 34.7 percent higher than the ministry’s count for the same period. That analysis also calculated roughly 8,540 excess non-violent deaths above pre-war projections based on household surveys.
Gaza’s pre-war population stood at approximately 2.3 million, making the cumulative toll equivalent to more than 3 percent of residents, according to demographic data cited alongside the casualty reports. The ministry’s methodology has drawn scrutiny and validation in equal measure from international researchers who note both its historical reliability in prior conflicts and current limitations from destroyed infrastructure. Separate Israeli figures focus on its own casualties and have not contested the broad scale of Palestinian losses reported by the health authority.
The conflict began with an attack on October 7, 2023, that Israeli authorities said killed about 1,200 people and resulted in more than 250 taken hostage. Palestinian health officials have maintained that their counts encompass all deaths linked to the ensuing military campaign without distinguishing specific causes in every case. The ministry continues to update its database as new information emerges from hospitals and recovery teams operating under constrained conditions.
