Tue 29 July 2025:
The confirmed number of Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks since the start of the war on Gaza has risen to at least 60,034, according to the Health Ministry in the besieged and bombarded territory.
In its latest daily update, the ministry said the bodies of 113 Palestinians, including one killed in an earlier attack, had been brought to hospitals across Gaza in the latest 24-hour reporting period.
A total of 637 injuries were also recorded, bringing the overall number of people wounded by Israeli forces during the war to 145,870, it added.
Israeli human rights groups B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights have released reports saying Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
Nearly 100,000 Palestinians killed in Gaza
Nearly 100,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, representing about 4% of the territory’s population, the Israeli daily Haaretz said last month.
The death toll contradicts the number of fatalities given by Gaza’s Health Ministry, which stood at over 56,300 since October 2023.
Haaretz said in addition to the high Palestinian deaths from Israeli attacks, many people also died from the indirect effects of the war such as hunger, cold and diseases amid a collapse of the health system in Gaza.
The daily said while Israeli spokespersons, journalists and influencers reject with knee-jerk disgust the death toll announced by Gaza’s Health Ministry as exaggerated, more and more international experts “are stating that not only is this list, with all the horror it embodies, reliable – but that it may even be very conservative in relation to reality.”
It cited a study conducted by Professor Michael Spagat, an economist at Holloway College at the University of London, a world-class expert on mortality in violent conflicts, about deaths in Gaza.
The study surveyed 2,000 households in the Palestinian enclave, comprising almost 10,000 people.
“They concluded that, as of January 2025, some 75,200 people died a violent death in Gaza during the war, the vast majority caused by Israeli munitions,” it said.
According to the survey’s data, 56% of those killed have been either children up to the age of 18 or women.
“That’s an exceptional figure when compared with almost every other conflict since World War II,” Haaretz said.
Spagat said the survey’s data positions the Gaza war “as one of the bloodiest conflicts of the 21st century.”
“Even if the overall number of war victims in Syria, Ukraine, and Sudan is higher in each case, Gaza is apparently in first place in terms of the ratio of combatants to noncombatants killed, as well as in terms of rate of death relative to population size.”
Data also show that the proportion of women and children killed via a violent death in Gaza is more than double the proportion in almost every other recent conflict, including Kosovo (20%), northern Ethiopia (9%), Syria (20%), and Sudan (23%).
“I think we’re probably at something like 4 percent of the population killed,” Spagat said. “I’m not sure that there’s another case in the 21st century that’s reached that high.”
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‘Worst-case scenario of famine’ now unfolding in Gaza: Global hunger monitoring system
The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), a global hunger monitoring system, has warned that the “worst-case scenario of famine” is now unfolding in Gaza.
“Latest data indicates that famine thresholds have been reached for food consumption in most of the Gaza Strip and for acute malnutrition in Gaza City,” it said in a new report.
“Amid relentless conflict, mass displacement, severely restricted humanitarian access, and the collapse of essential services, including healthcare, the crisis has reached an alarming and deadly turning point.”
Food consumption has sharply deteriorated, with one in three individuals going without food for days at a time, it said.
Malnutrition rose rapidly in the first half of July, with more than 20,000 children being admitted for treatment for acute malnutrition between April and mid-July. More than 3,000 are severely malnourished.
The IPC alert comes against the backdrop of its latest analysis released in May 2025, which projected that by September 2025, the entire population of Gaza would face high levels of acute food insecurity, with more than 500,000 people expected to be in a state of extreme food deprivation, starvation, and destitution.
One million women in Gaza facing starvation risks: UN
Sima Bahous, the executive director of UN Women, has said one million women and girls in Gaza face the “unthinkable choice” of starving or risking their lives while searching for food.
“This horror must end,” Bahous said in a social media post, calling for unhindered access to humanitarian aid into the Strip, the release of captives, and a permanent ceasefire.
The Israeli army has pursued a brutal offensive against Gaza since October 2023, despite international calls for a ceasefire.
Last November, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.
Israel also faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its war on the enclave.
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