Palestinian Territory – Preliminary statistics documented by Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor on the genocide committed by Israel in the Gaza Strip reveal staggering figures, evidence of a catastrophe that has spared no one. No resident of Gaza has been left untouched. The data shows that more than 270,000 people, around 12 per cent of the population, have been killed, injured, or detained since 7 October 2023.
The comprehensive statistics lay bare the far-reaching consequences of more than two years of genocide: mass killings, injuries, arbitrary arrests, large-scale destruction, dispossession, and forced displacement. Entire families have been wiped out, neighbourhoods erased, and livelihoods obliterated. The Strip's residents now face acute food insecurity, denial of healthcare and education, and profound psychological trauma that has engulfed an entire generation living under siege.
Over more than two years, the Israeli army has killed about 75,190 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, including at least 70,248 civilians, representing 90 per cent of the total. Among them are 21,310 children, accounting for 30 per cent of the fatalities, and 13,987 women, representing 20 per cent.
Euro-Med Monitor documented the injury of about 173,200 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, tens of thousands of whom suffer permanent disabilities or severe injuries such as amputations, severe burns, deformities, spinal and eye injuries, and serious psychological disorders caused by repeated trauma and the loss of loved ones and homes. The statistics indicate that around 40,000 people have sustained permanent or long-term disabilities, including nearly 21,000 children, with 76 per cent affecting the upper limbs and 24 per cent the lower limbs.
Approximately 45,600 children have been orphaned after losing one or both parents as a result of Israeli military attacks. Thousands more remain unaware of their families' fate, while others are missing, either trapped under the rubble or held in Israeli detention centres and prisons.
Meanwhile, around 12,000 Palestinians have been detained from the Gaza Strip, including about 2,700 who remain in custody or are victims of enforced disappearance.
Euro-Med Monitor had earlier issued a report based on personal interviews conducted with 100 detainees released from Israeli custody. The report documented 42 forms of torture and inhumane treatment that Palestinian detainees are subjected to in Israeli prisons and detention centres, including rape, sexual assault, bone breaking, electrocution, spitting and urinating on detainees, threats to kill family members, as well as premeditated murder and torture leading to death.
As a direct result of Israel's starvation campaign against the population of the Gaza Strip since the start of the genocide, Euro-Med Monitor documented the deaths of 482 Palestinians due to malnutrition, including 160 children. The entire population of the Gaza Strip continues to suffer from severe food insecurity, as Israel maintains restrictions on crossings and prevents the entry of essential food supplies, despite allowing limited humanitarian aid and goods to enter.
Furthermore, a 98 per cent decrease in the daily per capita water share has been recorded, resulting from the widespread destruction of water infrastructure and Israel's obstruction of water entry into the Gaza Strip.
Over the past two years of continuous attacks and strict blockade, Israeli authorities have prevented or obstructed about 80 per cent of international humanitarian missions from entering the northern Gaza Strip and Gaza City.
Statistics show that about 1,701 health workers have been killed, including 194 doctors and 376 nurses, while around 2,195 others have been injured. In addition, 255 journalists, 140 civil defence workers, 800 teachers, and 200 academics and university professors have lost their lives.
Euro-Med Monitor also recorded a nearly 300 per cent increase in miscarriage rates among pregnant women, resulting from direct injuries, gas inhalation, extreme stress, fear, and psychological trauma.
The entire population of the Gaza Strip has experienced varying degrees of psychological trauma. This prolonged exposure to violence has created a state of collective psychological stress, with whole communities suffering interconnected disorders as a result of the ongoing catastrophe.
Most residents of the Gaza Strip show clear symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), including hypervigilance, panic attacks, sleep disturbances, and recurring flashbacks or nightmares of traumatic events. They also experience a constant sense of losing control over their lives due to the ongoing risk of being targeted or killed, witnessing the loss of loved ones, repeated scenes of destruction, limited chances of survival, and the total absence of security.
This suffering is widespread across the entire Gaza Strip and spares no age or social group. It affects children, women, and men alike, leaving deep scars on the social fabric and undermining people's ability to regain a sense of security or rebuild stable lives after such immense loss.
The ongoing blockade and the destruction of infrastructure, including hospitals, schools, and homes, have worsened psychological symptoms by depriving individuals of both a sense of security and the basic conditions needed for recovery.
Up to 99 per cent of Gaza's population has been forcibly displaced at least once in the past two years, due to the destruction or targeting of their homes, Israeli evacuation orders, fear of attacks, or the devastation of infrastructure that made their areas uninhabitable.
Euro-Med Monitor also documented extensive destruction across nearly all areas of the Gaza Strip. The Israeli army has pursued a scorched-earth policy, deliberately targeting infrastructure, property, and vital facilities. Around 80 per cent of all buildings have been damaged or completely destroyed.
This includes 555,000 housing units that were completely destroyed or severely damaged, 3,300 industrial facilities, 191 press offices, and 621 schools. Statistics show that about 95 per cent of schools and universities, and all hospitals in the Gaza Strip, have been destroyed or damaged.
Regarding religious and archaeological sites, 890 mosques and 3 churches were destroyed or damaged, along with 205 historical and archaeological landmarks.
Euro-Med Monitor noted that despite the ceasefire taking effect on 11 October, Israel committed at least 47 violations, during which its forces killed 73 Palestinians in separate attacks, including air and artillery bombardments, sniper fire, and direct gunfire.
The ceasefire and the reduction in Israeli military attacks on the Gaza Strip do not signify an end to the genocide, as Israeli authorities continue to perpetrate it systematically and continuously, despite the decrease in overt bombings. They persist in directly targeting civilians and enforcing arbitrary measures, including a suffocating blockade, the closure of crossings, and severerestrictions on the entry of heavy equipment needed to clear rubble and search for missing persons. They also impose arbitrary limitations on the entry of food, humanitarian aid, and medical supplies.
The ceasefire agreement must not hinder or delay efforts to hold Israeli officials accountable before competent international and national courts, nor to impose economic, diplomatic, and military sanctions on Israel for its systematic and grave violations of international law. These measures should include banning arms and dual-use exports to and from Israel, ending all forms of political, financial, and military cooperation, freezing the assets of officials implicated in crimes against Palestinians, imposing travel bans on them, and suspending trade privileges and bilateral agreements that grant Israel economic advantages, facilitating its continued crimes against Palestinians.
The international community must urgently fulfil its legal and moral obligations by addressing the root causes of the Palestinian people's suffering and oppression, ongoing for 77 years. It must ensure their right to live in freedom, dignity, and self-determination in line with international law, end the apartheid regime imposed by the Israeli settler-colonial enterprise, lift the illegal blockade of the Gaza Strip, ensure the full withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Palestinian territories occupied in 1967, hold Israeli perpetrators accountable, and guarantee Palestinian victims their right to compensation and redress.
