Israel has killed 1,622 Palestinians in Gaza and wounded 5,878 in the 397 days since the so-called ceasefire took effect in October 2025, by the Health Ministry's count on Wednesday 11 November. Israel's forces have lost seven soldiers and a civilian contractor in the same period, which makes about 203 Palestinians killed for every Israeli.
In the Health Ministry's report for the 24 hours to Wednesday 11 November, Israel killed eight Palestinians in Gaza and wounded 29 more.
Israel has now killed more Palestinians during the so-called ceasefire than it killed in Operation Cast Lead, the three-week assault on Gaza in 2008 and 2009, when B'Tselem counted 1,387 Palestinian dead. The so-called ceasefire appears to be the most violent in modern history, and the violence has run almost entirely one way.
The UN human rights office has verified 1,076 of the deaths up to the end of July 2026, a stricter count than the ministry's, and 37% of them were women and children. Sixty-four children were killed in attacks in which no adult died. The office found 331 people killed near the yellow line that marks the territory Israeli forces kept, and said their conduct there "raises serious concerns that it is being treated as a kill zone". In many of the cases it verified, nothing suggested the dead posed any threat to Israeli forces, and some were killed inside their tents.
Israel's army describes these killings as eliminating terrorists who crossed the yellow line or threatened its troops. The UN's findings contradict that account in many of the cases it checked. UNICEF has counted more than 340 children killed since the so-called ceasefire began, by airstrikes, drone strikes and gunfire, and its spokesperson Ricardo Pires said in October that "those terrible statistics do not equate with a ceasefire".
Israeli forces held nearly 53% of Gaza when the so-called ceasefire was announced, and UN monitors found they have kept moving the yellow line inwards since. Benjamin Netanyahu has said his goal is 70%.
The full toll of the genocide since October 2023, 74,653 killed by the ministry's count, is on our Gaza record.
