Briefers at the Security Council today spoke of the disastrous situation for women and children in the Gaza Strip due to the Israel-Hamas war, highlighting acute stresses and needs of mothers and declaring Gaza to be the most dangerous place in the world to be a child.

May 17, 2024 - The actual death toll matters—first, because of the dignity of those killed or still living.

October 27, 2023 - SEVENTY-EIGHTH SESSION, 34TH & 35TH MEETINGS (AM & PM) GA/SHC/4390 24 OCTOBER 2023 Committee also Highlights Human

March 7, 2024 - Lloyd Austin’s recent gullibility about Hamas casualty figures lays bare the terrorist group’s goal: to use lies and propaganda to turn the world against Israel. At a press conference in the early days of the Israel–Hamas conflict, President Joe Biden was asked about casualty numbers ...

1 day ago - In December, Israel's military said it estimated two out of three (66%) of those killed to be civilians. Even the conservative figure of 61 percent is higher than the average civilian death rate in all world conflicts "from the Second World War to the 1990s", according to Yigal Levy. The number of casualties is higher than in any conflict in Gaza's recent history, with Neta Crawford of the Costs of War Project at Brown University ...

The adjusted numbers reflect the many challenges of counting deaths in a chaotic urban conflict.

New data on Gazan fatalities cited by UN agency separates 'identified' deaths in hospitals from some 10,000 alleged deaths based on Hamas 'media sources'

Want to improve your data skills? Take this 5 minute survey to help the Centre shape its data literacy resources for humanitarians · Data Grid Completeness defines a set of core data that are essential for preparedness and emergency response. For select countries, the HDX Team and trusted ...

January 3, 2024 - Casualty data about Gaza or any war zone are an incomplete, inherently flawed measure of the scale of destruction.

May 17, 2024 - The United Nations has revised down the percentage of women and children among the reported fatalities in Gaza, leading to controversy over the accuracy and sources of the casualty figures.

The number of people killed in Gaza has reached 5,087 according to latest reports from de facto authorities there, amid intensifying Israeli airstrikes in response to Hamas attacks, even as United Nations entities have repeated urgent calls for a ceasefire and more aid convoys.

Palestinian health officials in Gaza say they have lost the ability to count the dead because of the collapse of the enclave's health system and the difficulty of retrieving bodies from areas overrun by Israeli tanks and troops.

November 8, 2023 - As Israeli forces continue to intensify their cataclysmic assault on the occupied Gaza Strip, Amnesty International has documented unlawful Israeli attacks, including indiscriminate attacks, which caused mass civilian casualties and must be investigated as war crimes.

May 16, 2024 - The UN says it is now relying on figures from the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza.

History History of the Question of Palestine. Palestinian Rights Committee

May 27, 2024 - Editor’s note: The list below is CPJ’s most recent and preliminary account of journalist casualties in the war. Our database will not include all of these cases until we have completed further investigations into the circumstances surrounding them. For more information, read our FAQ.

December 18, 2023 - Civilian proportion of deaths is higher than the average in all world conflicts in second half of 20th century, data suggests

November 1, 2023 - Two conflict experts compare numbers over the last three Gaza wars and conclude: the current numbers are credible and show increasingly more civilians getting killed