More Than 1,000 Palestinians Killed in Gaza Since the “Ceasefire,” Health Officials Say
Gaza officials say more than 73,000 Palestinians have been killed since October 2023, while independent research suggests the official death toll may still be an undercount.
Israel has killed more than 1,000 Palestinians in Gaza since a U.S.-brokered ceasefire took effect in October 2025, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.
The number cuts through the word “ceasefire.” For Palestinians in Gaza, the agreement has not meant an end to Israeli fire, displacement, or death. Health officials in Gaza say Israeli attacks and gunfire have continued killing Palestinians, even as the ceasefire is publicly described as a pause in the war.
Gaza’s wider death toll has now passed 73,000 Palestinians killed since October 2023, according to Gaza health officials. The ministry’s figures do not separate civilians from combatants, but international agencies and major news organizations have continued using the data as the main public record of Palestinian deaths in Gaza.
The confirmed toll may still understate the scale of death. A study published in The Lancet Global Health estimated 75,200 violent deaths in Gaza during the first 16 months of the war alone, higher than the official count available for that same period. Women, children, and older people made up more than half of the violent deaths estimated in that study.
That matters because the official number is often treated as the ceiling when it may be the floor. Gaza’s dead include Palestinians killed directly by Israeli fire, but the public record has also struggled to capture the bodies still under rubble, the deaths that come after the attack, and the full human cost of destroyed hospitals, displacement, hunger, and repeated bombardment.
A ceasefire that leaves Palestinians still being killed by Israeli fire is not peace for the people living under it. It is another chapter in the record of a war whose death toll keeps rising while Gaza’s survivors are left to count the dead.
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