The Human Cost
75,300
historically reported total
This combines unlike reported totals and is not a verified combatant/civilian accounting. Gaza’s reported total exceeded 73,000 by June 2026 and continued to rise; Israeli totals and categories are separately reported.
Each dot below represents 1,000 human lives. Scroll to watch the scale unfold.
Working allocation: 900 soldiers killed in combat, from wounds, or from disease. Each = 1,000 lives.
74,400 civilians killed — from violence, famine, disease, and displacement. Wars are not fought only by soldiers.
incl. 38,000 civilians
incl. 24,000 civilians
incl. 16,000 civilians
incl. 4,000 civilians
incl. 3,000 civilians
incl. 809 civilians
incl. 1,000 civilians
How Gaza War's dead compare to other conflicts and events.
1,200 dead
About 1,200 people were killed in Israel on October 7, the deadliest single attack in the country’s history.
5,000 dead
5,000 Palestinian dead by end of October 2023 — the pace of killing was among the fastest in modern urban warfare
30,000 dead
30,000 total Palestinian deaths by February 2024 — the conflict surpassed the death toll of the entire Yom Kippur War