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Writer's pictureAdi Ronen Argov
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Data, October 7, 2023 - November 15, 2024 – The Gaza Strip

Palestinians killed

‣ 43,972 persons killed (number of bodies found and brought to hospitals, not all of them identified), 90% of them unarmed;

‣ In the Northern Strip (Beit Hanoun, Beit Lahia and Jabalia), more than 2,000 persons were killed in the 38 days of implementation of “the generals’ plan”;



‣ Of the persons killed:

◦ The number of children is estimated at 17,012 (of them 13,319 have been identified). Children constitute 33% of the total killed. Among them, 11,249 were school children;

◦ The number of women is estimated at 10,670 (of these 7,216 have been identified);

◦ The number of elderly persons is estimated at 3,447;

‣ Among the persons killed:

◦ 190 journalists;

◦ 86 members of rescue teams;

◦ 83 doctors;

◦ 1,030 members of medical teams;

◦ 444 teachers;

◦ 326 aid workers;

◦ 1,206 families totally erased;

◦ 35,055 children orphaned at least of one parent.


Israelis killed

‣ 1,163 Israelis killed on October 7, 2023;

‣ Of these:

◦ 739 civilians;

◦ 357 security force personnel;

◦ 38 minors;

‣ 376 soldiers (men and women) killed since the ground warfare in the Gaza Strip.

‣ 800 children orphaned of at least one parent.


Palestinians wounded


‣ 104,008 Palestinians wounded, of them:

◦ Over 6,000 in the Northern Strip during the 38 days of implementation of “the generals’ plan”.

‣ Among them:

◦ 17,335 school children;

◦ 2,491 teachers;

◦ 14,000 wounded persons awaiting evacuation.

‣ On November 6, 2024, the World Health Organization managed to evacuate 90 critically wounded patients and their 139 accompaniers. The greatest evacuation operation since May 2024.


Israelis wounded

‣ About 5,400 persons wounded on October 7, 2023;

‣ 2,423 soldiers wounded since the beginning of ground warfare, of them 442 in bad condition.


Palestinians arrested

‣ The estimated number is about 4,150;

‣ About 1,000 were arrested in the Northern Strip in the 38 days since the beginning of “the generals’ plan” implementation.


Kidnapped

‣ 255 were taken hostage on October 7, 2023;

‣ 117 hostages were either released or returned in a deal;

‣ 35 hostages of those remaining in the Gaza Strip are defined as killed;

‣ 66 hostages are still held in the Gaza Strip, their condition unknown. Of these,

2 are minors.


Palestinians displaced


‣ 90% of the Strip’s population are displaced, namely 1.9 million persons;

‣ 79% of the Strip are defined as areas that must be evacuated;

‣ 1.35 million Palestinians need shelter;

‣ 1.5 sq.m. is the average space per person in a shelter;

‣ 50,000 – 75,000 have not left;

‣ During the month of October, 64 attacks on displaced persons shelters were documented (25 of them in the Northern Strip) – an average of 2 daily attacks.


Israelis displaced

‣ 7,000 persons displaced from the area near the Gaza Strip have not returned to the south of the country;

‣ 67,500 displaced have returned.


Destruction


‣ 87% of the residences;

‣ 87% of the schools;

‣ 68% of farmland;

‣ 52% of farming water reservoirs;

‣ 44% of the greenhouses (as of September);

‣ 70% of the fishing boats;

‣ 95% of the cattle died;

‣ 43% of the sheep died;

‣ 330,000 meters of water pipes;

‣ 717 wells.


Humanitarian crisis

‣ 91% of the Gaza Strip population has known level 3 hunger (of the IPC scale):

◦ 876,000 persons at level 4;

◦ 345,000 at level 5 (the highest level in the scale).



‣ Over 96% of 0.5-2 year old children are not adequately fed;

‣ 346,000 children under 5 years of age are not adequately fed;

‣ 160,000 pregnant/nursing women are not adequately fed;

‣ Over 50,000 children suffer extreme malnutrition and need urgent medical care;

‣ 96% decline in water supply per person;

‣ 42,000 pregnant women suffer level 3 nutrition stress;

‣ 15,000 pregnant women suffer level 4;

‣ 3,000 pregnant women suffer level 5;

‣ Drastic increase in premature births and fetus deaths;

‣ 155,000 pregnant or nursing women cannot reach medical follow-up before and after giving birth;

‣ 90% of children under the age of 5 have suffered at least one infectious disease;

‣ 11,000 cases of severe respiratory infection in one week at the beginning of November:

‣ 6,800 – 13,700 children in the Northern Strip did not receive their second polio vaccination booster;

‣ 1 million children in the Gaza Strip need urgent psycho-social aid;

‣ 658,000 children have not attended an educational framework for the past

13 months;

‣ All applications for entry of aid delegations to the Northern Strip have been rejected, except for one delegation of the World Food Organization that was reduced to 3 trucks, entering Beit Hanoun on November 11, 2024. Shortly thereafter the families sheltered in the school allocating the aid were chased away and the place set on fire.

 

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