The IDF has accepted the estimate of the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry

Nobody gives a fuck if Hamas runs the Health Ministry and writing this over and over again won’t magically fix anything. Knock this shit off.

Anyway,

that approximately 71,000 Palestinians were killed during the Israel-Gaza war, noting that the number does not include missing residents who are potentially buried under rubble.

The IDF also said it is currently analyzing the data on the dead to see how many of them are combatants and how many are civilians. According to the Gaza Health Ministry, 71,667 Gazans have been killed by IDF fire since the beginning of the war on October 7, 2023.

The Ministry’s tally includes only those killed directly by Israeli military fire in its tracking, not people who died of starvation or from diseases exacerbated by the war.

The records published by the Gaza Ministry of Health identify over 90 percent of the bodies by name and identification numbers, but do not distinguish between militants and civilians.

The data published by the Health Ministry regarding the dead and wounded in the Gaza Strip have been examined since the beginning of the war by many international organizations, governments, media outlets, and researchers, and there is broad agreement that they are reliable. Nevertheless, Israel has never officially accepted the number, and the Foreign Ministry has even called it “misleading and unreliable.”

However, Israel has not refuted the data with contradictory information, and several studies have even raised the possibility that the death toll in Gaza is even higher than the Health Ministry reports. In June 2025, a study was released concluding that, as of January of that year, some 75,200 Gazans had died a violent death during the war, contradicting the Health Ministry’s count of around 55,000 dead. At the time, more and more international experts concluded that the Health Ministry’s data is reliable, and may even be very conservative.