Jabalia Refugee Camp-Israel bombs remains - Photo: Quds News Network

According to the most recent figures from the Health Ministry in Gaza [1] in 24 hours on October 5 the Gaza strip medical facilities received 65 dead, and 153 others injured resulting from attacks and military aggression by the Israeli occupation army. They said that many victims are still trapped under the rubble and on the roads as rescuers are unable to reach them. They said that these latest casualties bring Gaza's total documented death toll since October 7, 2023, to 67,139 dead and 169,583 injured.

Farewell to those killed seeking aid - Photo: Quds Network News

During these two years the horrific facts show that Israel, backed by the US, Britain and the others of the Genocide 7 that have armed this genocidal regime, have killed more than 10 percent of Gaza's population, including at least 20,000 children and infants. In addition UNICEF estimates that 3,000 to 4,000 children in Gaza have lost one or more limbs. Israel has attacked and destroyed nearly all of Gaza's hospitals and healthcare facilities killing, according to UN figures, 1,722 health and aid workers. Hundreds of others have been forcibly removed from hospital wards and patient bedsides and detained in Israeli prisons and military camps. This includes 28 prominent physicians, including 18 senior specialists in vital fields such as surgery, anaesthesiology, intensive care and
Palestine Solidarity - Photo: Shehab paediatrics. Two of these senior doctors have reportedly died under torture in Israeli custody, and their bodies are still being withheld. At least 20 physicians were taken from hospitals besieged or stormed by Israeli soldiers, while others were detained from medical convoys, their homes or during forced evacuations.

In these unprecedented war crimes Israel has orchestrated widespread hunger in Gaza through military restrictions that have blocked aid for months and an imposed food distribution system in which people are shot almost daily while trying to collect food. At least 459 people, including 154 children, have died due to starvation with more than 2,600 being killed and more than 19,000 being injured when collecting food and chillingly deliberately shot and injured by the IDF. According to the same UN authorities nearly 89% of Gaza's water and sanitation infrastructure is damaged.

On August 22, the United Nations-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) system, a global hunger monitor, confirmed a famine in the enclave - the first officially recognised in the Middle East. At least 780 education staff members have also been killed, and 92 percent of schools now require complete reconstruction. More than 2,300 educational facilities, including 63 university buildings, have been destroyed. The ones still standing are being used as shelter for the displaced or occupied by the IDF who occupy schools and hospitals to hide from the resistance and wage "war" on the population.

More than 10,800 Palestinians are currently held in Israeli prisons under what human rights groups describe as grave and inhumane conditions, including 450 children and 87 women. People were rounded up in raids in Gaza, or during raids in the occupied West Bank. A significant number are held without charge or trial. At least 3,629 Palestinians are being detained under administrative detention, a policy that Israel uses to imprison Palestinians indefinitely on "secret evidence".

Note
1. Two years of Israel's genocide in Gaza: By the numbers, Al Jazeera, October 7. Nearly 300 journalists and media workers have been killed in Gaza since October 7, including 10 from Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/7/two-years-of-israels-genocide-in-gaza-by-the-numbers

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