«A devastating new study has found that more than 112,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip since Israel launched its assault in October 2023. This figure, drawn from the most extensive demographic analysis conducted to date, far exceeds the official death toll and reveals a pattern of killing that researchers say mirrors past genocides documented by the United Nations.
«The study, carried out by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Germany and the Centre for Demographic Studies Spain, was published in the peer-reviewed journal ‘Population Health Metrics’. The researchers estimate that between 99,997 and 125,915 Palestinians died in Gaza between 7 October 2023 and 6 October 2025, with a median estimate of 112,069.
«The findings are based on a wide range of data sources, including hospital records, household surveys and public death notices, and take into account the thousands of unregistered deaths caused by families being buried under rubble or unable to reach medical care.»
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Read the whole text here: https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20251126-with-over-112000-killed-new-study-links-gazas-massacre-to-past-genocides/
The Max Planck Institute: https://www.mpg.de/25778228/1125-defo-gaza-study-reveals-unprecedented-losses-of-life-and-life-expectancy-154642-x
Previously, in July 2024, ‘The Lancet’ had suggested that «it is not implausible to estimate that up to 186, 000 or even more deaths could be attributable to the current conflict in Gaza»: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)01169-3/fulltext
MEM: «the true death toll of the Gaza conflict could be over 186,000, accounting for 8 per cent of Gaza’s population»: https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20251126-with-over-112000-killed-new-study-links-gazas-massacre-to-past-genocides/
Maybe the more accurate article on the topic is this one, by Daniel Tester (Feb. 25th, 2026): https://www.middleeasteye.net/explainers/genocide-gaza-how-many-palestinians-did-israel-kill
It also reveals that «in August 2025, +972 Magazine reported figures from a classified Israeli military intelligence database [saying] that fewer than 9,000 Palestinian fatalities had been identified as alleged Hamas fighters. / At that time, the ministry in Gaza had recorded at least 53,000 fatalities, suggesting that 46,000 – or 83 percent – of those Palestinians killed were civilians.»
This, to me, means that –every 100 individuals– the genocidal State slaughtered an average number of 83 innocents in order to eliminate 17 members of the Resistance.
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(About the fact that –already in 2024– the numbers were «a small slice of the overall picture of human suffering»: https://data.techforpalestine.org/updates/gaza-ministry-casualty-context/)