Using media reports posted on 12/24/2023,1 I compiled some composite Palestinian casualty figures on the Gaza war.
While multiple sources have identified the number of women and children killed, I have seen no clear figures on the total civilian versus military casualties among Palestinians.
The Israelis, and the Israelis only, are claiming that 8,000 Palestinian fatalities are those of combatants.
2023 Population of Gaza Strip—2,375,000
As of December 24, 2023:
1.) Total Palestinian casualties—74,460
Palestinian fatalities—20,424
Palestinian wounded—54,036
Total casualties as a percentage of the population of Gaza—3.1%
Percentage of women and children casualties—69%
2.) Total Palestinian displaced persons—1,900,000
Total displaced persons as a percentage of the population of Gaza—80%
3.) Total Palestinians with exhausted food supplies/facing catastrophic starvation—576,600
Percentage of Palestinian population facing starvation—24.2%
3.) Total United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) fatalities—142
4.) Total journalist fatalities—103
5.) Total all non-Israeli Gaza fatalities—20,669
6.) Total Palestinian casualties, West Bank—3,753
Total Palestinian fatalities, West Bank—303
Total Palestinian injuries, West Bank—3,450
7.) Total Palestinian casualties, Gaza and West Bank—78,213
Total Palestinian fatalities, Gaza and West Bank—20,727
Total Palestinian injured and wounded, Gaza and West Bank—57,486
8.) Total Israeli Casualties, Gaza and Green Line Israel—3,730
Total Israeli Fatalities—1,413
(504 soldiers, 69 police and security officers, 770 civilians, 70 Israeli Arabs)
Total Israeli Injured and Wounded—2,069
Total Israeli Hostages Taken—248
Total casualties as a percentage of the population of Israel—.04%
9.) Total Israeli displaced persons—200,000
Total displaced persons as a percentage of the population of Israel—2%
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- Editor’s note: Joe Doyle sent us this on Christmas Eve. That it is only now being posted on site has to do with our scheduling here, and not his planning. ↩
