The majority of casualties have been in the [[Gaza Strip]]. The [[Gaza Health Ministry]] (GHM) total casualty count is the number of deaths directly caused by the war. The demographic breakdown is a subset of those individually identified.<ref name="theguardian20240917" /><ref name="JP20240511">{{#invoke:cite web||date=11 May 2024 |title=UN seemingly halves estimate of Gazan women, children killed |url=https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-800772 |access-date=13 May 2024 |website=[[The Jerusalem Post]] |language=en}}</ref> On 17 September 2024, the GHM published the names, gender and birth date of 34,344 individual Palestinians whose identities were confirmed and continues to attempt to identify all casualties.<ref name="theguardian20240917">{{#invoke:cite news||last=Graham-Harrison |first=Emma |date=2024-09-17 |title=Gaza publishes identities of 34,344 Palestinians killed in war with Israel |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/17/gaza-publishes-identities-of-34344-palestinians-killed-in-war-with-israel |access-date=2024-09-24 |work=[[The Guardian]] |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> The GHM count does not include those who have died from "preventable disease, malnutrition and other consequences of the war".<ref name="NPR-revised">{{#invoke:cite news||last1=Batrawy |first1=Aya |date=15 May 2024 |title=Why the U.N. revised the numbers of women and children killed in Gaza |url=https://www.npr.org/2024/05/15/1251265727/un-gaza-death-toll-women-children |access-date=19 May 2024 |work=[[NPR]] }}</ref> An analysis by the Gaza Health Projections Working Group predicted thousands of excess deaths from disease and birth complications.<ref>Zeina Jamaluddine, Zhixi Chen, Hanan Abukmail, Sarah Aly, Shatha Elnakib, Gregory Barnsley et al. (2024). [https://aoav.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/gaza_projections_report.pdf Crisis in Gaza: Scenario-based health impact projections. Report One: 7 February to 6 August 2024.] London, Baltimore: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Johns Hopkins University.</ref> A survey by [[Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research|PCPSR]] reported showed over 60% of Gazans have lost family members since the war began.<ref>Azza Guergues, [https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/08/15/gaza-palestinians-fleeing-egypt-refugees-rafah-crossing-israel-war/ How 100,000 Palestinians Are Surviving in Egypt Without Refugee Status], [[Foreign Policy]] 15 August 2024</ref><ref>{{#invoke:cite web||date=8 May 2024 |title=Hostilities in the Gaza Strip and Israel – reported impact {{!}} Day 215 |url=http://www.ochaopt.org/content/hostilities-gaza-strip-and-israel-reported-impact-day-215 |access-date=13 May 2024 |website=United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs – occupied Palestinian territory |language=en}}</ref> Indirect deaths{{#tag:ref|In addition to direct deaths, armed conflicts result in indirect deaths "attributable to the conflict". Mortality due to indirect deaths could be due to a variety of causes, such as infectious diseases.<ref name="GarryChecchi2020">{{#invoke:cite journal ||doi=10.1093/pubmed/fdz095 |title=Armed conflict and public health: Into the 21st century |date=2020 |last1=Garry |first1=S. |last2=Checchi |first2=F. |journal=[[Journal of Public Health]] |volume=42 |issue=3 |pages=e287–e298 |pmid=31822891}}</ref>}}<ref name="GDS2008">{{#invoke:cite report ||author=Geneva Declaration Secretariat |year=2008 |title=Global Burden of Armed Violence |url=https://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/Crime-statistics/Global-Burden-of-Armed-Violence-full-report.pdf |publisher=Geneva Declaration Secretariat |page=4 |quote=The ratio of people killed in war to those dying indirectly because of a conflict is explored in the chapter on indirect deaths (INDIRECT CONFLICT DEATHS). Studies show that between three and 15 times as many people die indirectly for every person who dies violently.}}</ref> are likely to be multiple times higher.<ref name="LancetPII">{{#invoke:cite journal||last1=Khatib |first1=Rasha |last2=McKee |first2=Martin |last3=Yusuf |first3=Salim |title=Counting the dead in Gaza: difficult but essential |journal=[[The Lancet]] |publisher=Elsevier BV |year=2024 |volume=404 |issue=10449 |pages=237–238 |issn=0140-6736 |doi=10.1016/s0140-6736(24)01169-3 |pmid=38976995 |url=https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)01169-3/fulltext |quote=In recent conflicts, such indirect deaths range from three to 15 times the number of direct deaths. Applying a conservative estimate of four indirect deaths per one direct death to the 37,396 deaths reported, it is not implausible to estimate that up to 186,000 or even more deaths could be attributable to the current conflict in Gaza. Using the 2022 Gaza Strip population estimate of 2,375,259, this would translate to 7.9% of the total population in the Gaza Strip.}}</ref><ref name="theguardian20240905">{{#invoke:cite news ||last1=Sridhar |first1=Devi |title=Scientists are closing in on the true, horrifying scale of death and disease in Gaza |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/sep/05/scientists-death-disease-gaza-polio-vaccinations-israel |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=5 September 2024 |access-date=12 November 2024}}</ref> Thousands of more dead bodies are thought to be under the rubble of destroyed buildings.<ref name="Tantesh-Graham-Harrison-2024">{{#invoke:cite news||last1=Tantesh |first1=Malak A. |last2=Graham-Harrison |first2=Emma |date=15 August 2024 |title=Gaza rubble likely to conceal untold horrors to swell 40,000 death toll |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/15/gaza-death-toll-hits-40000-with-thousands-more-yet-to-be-counted |work=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=19 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240822170140/https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/15/gaza-death-toll-hits-40000-with-thousands-more-yet-to-be-counted |archive-date=22 August 2024 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="reuters20231221">{{#invoke:cite news||last1=Massoud |first1=Bassam |last2=Fick |first2=Maggie |date=23 December 2023 |title=Gaza death toll: why counting the dead has become a daily struggle |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/fight-keep-counting-dead-gaza-2023-12-21/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240114213315/https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/fight-keep-counting-dead-gaza-2023-12-21/ |archive-date=14 January 2024 |work=[[Reuters]]}}</ref> An analysis published in ''[[The Lancet]]'' has estimated a total figure of 70,000 direct deaths due to traumatic injuries.<ref name="Lancet2025">{{#invoke:cite journal||last1=Jamaluddine |first1=Zeina |last2=Abukmail |first2=Hanan |last3=Aly |first3=Sarah |last4=Campbell|first4=Oona M. R. |last5=Checchi |first5=Francesco |date=9 January 2025 |doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(24)02678-3 |journal=[[The Lancet]] |publisher=Elsevier |title=Traumatic injury mortality in the Gaza Strip from Oct 7, 2023, to June 30, 2024: a capture–recapture analysis}}</ref> The number of injured is greater than 100,000;<ref name="CNN_22_October_2024">{{#invoke:cite news||url=https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/israel-iran-lebanon-gaza-war-10-22-24-intl-hnk/index.html |work=[[CNN]] |title=More than 100,000 Palestinians have been injured in Gaza since last October, according to health ministry |date=22 October 2024 |first1=Kareem |last1=Khadder |first2=Sanna Noor |last2=Haq |archive-url=https://archive.today/20241102155735/https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/israel-iran-lebanon-gaza-war-10-22-24-intl-hnk/index.html |archive-date=2 November 2024 |url-status=live }}</ref> Gaza has the most amputated children per capita in the world.<ref name="un20241213">{{#invoke:cite web||url=https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/12/1158176 |title=Gaza: 'Sickening normalisation' of suffering, amid attacks on people and aid convoys |date=13 December 2024 |work=UN News |publisher=[[United Nations]] |access-date=21 December 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241219122142/https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/12/1158176 |archive-date=19 December 2024 |url-status=live }}</ref>

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