Figures as of 17 August 2026 Day 312 of the ceasefire Source: Gaza MoH · UN OCHA · IPC

Gaza Casualty Ledger

73,393 Palestinians killed
7 days +7 since truce +1,264
174,280 Palestinians injured
7 days +28 since truce +4,168

Break it down by period

Out of every 1,000 people who lived in Gaza before October 2023

33 killed 78 injured 889 neither recorded

One in nine people in Gaza has been killed or wounded. The grey squares are not a safe category — they include the displaced, the starving and the unrecovered.

Who has been killed

Cumulative
27.5% of the recorded dead are children
20,179Children killed
12,500Women killed
1,701Medical workers killed
262Journalists killed
140Civil defence workers killed

The official count is a floor, not a ceiling

Gaza MoH, recorded deaths · Oct 2023 – Aug 2026 73,393
Lancet field survey, estimated violent deaths · Oct 2023 – Jan 2025 only 75,200
Israeli military internal figure · acknowledged Jan 2026 ~70,000

The survey found more violent deaths in 15 months than the ministry has registered in nearly three years. Deaths from disease, hunger and untreated illness are in none of these numbers.

Hunger · IPC classification, April–June 2026

All five governorates in Crisis
212,000 Phase 4 · Emergency 988,000 Phase 3 · Crisis ~900,000 Phase 1–2
1.2M 59% of Gaza in Crisis or worse right now
1.4M Projected by December 2026 — up 200,000
90% Facing moderate-to-high water insecurity, up from 84% in June
87% UN aid offloading rate, improved from 77%

What the injuries mean afterwards

1 in 4 Of the injured live with amputations, spinal cord or brain injuries
~2% Of Gaza's pre-war population now has a severe conflict-related injury
0 Specialised paediatric rehabilitation services in Gaza
45 Attacks on health care in Gaza in 2026 so far — half of them in Rafah

Last three weeks

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Israeli casualties and hostages

~1,200 Killed in the 7 October 2023 attack; 251 taken captive
968 Israeli soldiers, officers and reservists named as killed since
168 Hostages recovered alive
87 Hostages returned deceased — the last on 26 Jan 2026. None remain held.

West Bank

Cumulative since 7 October 2023
1,108Palestinians killed, including 234 children
11,525Palestinians injured
4,474Recorded settler attacks
98Attacks on health care, January–July 2026
How to read these figures
  • The count is administrative, not epidemiological. It records deaths that reach a hospital or morgue and are identified — not those still under rubble, or who died at home.
  • Indirect deaths appear nowhere. Deaths from the collapse of health care, water and food systems are uncounted.
  • Sources differ slightly. MoH puts the truce-period toll at 1,264; OCHA at 1,259 as of 12 August. Different cutoffs, different verification standards, neither fully verified independently.
  • Totals lag reality. Figures are revised upward as bodies are recovered — 804 have been retrieved from rubble since the ceasefire alone.
Sources
  1. Gaza MoH daily reports, 5–17 Aug 2026 — IMEMC, Middle East Monitor, Daily Yemen, SANA.
  2. Live casualty figures: Tech For Palestine, which mirrors Gaza MoH reporting. The page fetches this on load; if it is unreachable, the figures shown are the 17 August 2026 snapshot.
  3. UN OCHA, Humanitarian Situation Report, 14 August 2026.
  4. IPC, Gaza Strip acute food insecurity, Apr–Jun 2026 with projection to Dec 2026.
  5. Gaza Mortality Survey, The Lancet Global Health; Al Jazeera, 18 Feb 2026.
  6. CNN, 30 Jan 2026 — Israeli military's internal figure.
  7. Times of Israel — named Israeli fatalities; NPR, 26 Jan 2026 — final hostage remains.
  8. Board of Peace — Al Jazeera, 31 Jul, 4 Aug; Times of Israel liveblog, 16 Aug 2026.