According to the Ministry of Health under Hamas, the extremist organization that ruled Gaza, the number of victims of the war in Gaza exceeded 25,000 on Sunday.
According to figures from the Hamas Health Ministry, every hundred Gazans have died in the ongoing war.
About 2.3 million people live in the area. Based on the statistics of the Gaza Ministry of Health, of the 25,100 people who have died in the war, at least 9,600 have been minors and 6,750 have been women.
The number of casualties is significantly higher than in previous Israeli-Palestinian conflicts and wars in recent decades.
The graphic below summarizes the casualty figures of the current and five previous conflicts and wars.
The UN considers the statistics on casualties reported by the Gaza authorities to be reliable. The UN bases its view, among other things, on the fact that the casualty figures reported by the Gaza health authorities from previous conflicts have held up quite well in subsequent inspections. The Ministry of Health under Hamas is the only body that has been able to keep statistics on the number of people who died in the war.
The ongoing war in Gaza began when Hamas launched a terrorist attack on Israel on October 7. The terrorists killed around 1,200 people in the attack. Hamas is still holding more than a hundred people hostage from Israel it kidnapped in October.
Israel is far from its goal of destroying Hamas
Israel has announced its goal to kill all Hamas fighters. The Gaza Ministry of Health does not distinguish between civilians and Hamas fighters in its casualty statistics.
US intelligence officials estimate that Israel has only succeeded in eliminating 20-30 percent of Hamas fighters in Gaza after the war has continued for more than three months.
The one who reported on it the American Wall Street Journal has seen a classified document that says the US believes Hamas still has enough military equipment to continue fighting Israeli forces for months.
Israel announced yesterday that 530 of its soldiers have been killed in Gaza during the attack.
According to the UN, 85 percent of the 2.3 million Gazans have had to flee their homes. There is a serious shortage of food, clean water and medical supplies in the region. Healthcare is in chaos in Gaza.