Nearly 250,000 dead, injured or missing in Gaza over two years of genocide: Palestinian Health Ministry

Gaza: The Palestinian Ministry of Health confirmed that over the course of two years, since Oct. 7, 2023, Israel has committed acts of genocide in the...

Gaza: The Palestinian Ministry of Health confirmed that over the course of two years, since Oct. 7, 2023, Israel has committed acts of genocide in the Gaza Strip, resulting in the martydom and injury of approximately 240,000 Palestinians, most of them children and women, in addition to a number of people missing under the rubble.

More than 67,000 Palestinians have been martyred and nearly 170,000 injured, the vast majority of them women and children. Thousands more remain buried under rubble, unreachable even by emergency responders.

Gaza's healthcare system has been pushed to the brink of total collapse. Of the 36 hospitals that served the population before the war, 34 have been completely or partially destroyed. More than 400 documented attacks have targeted hospitals, clinics, medical staff, and ambulances.

Israel has used hunger as a weapon. By August 2024, the UN-led Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) confirmed the outbreak of famine in Gaza.

Over 500,000 Palestinians are living in Phase 5 conditions, the most catastrophic level of food insecurity, marked by extreme hunger, acute malnutrition, and death.