In detail | Devastation figures in Gaza: almost 18,000 dead children, all damaged hospitals
Waiting for Israel to give an official response to Hamas’s proposal for a high fire in Gaza, devastation in the strip grows. These are some of the most revealing figures.
— Israel has killed 59,219 Gazatis since October 7, 2023according to the Ministry of Health of the Strip, which is figure in 143,045 Gazatis the number of injured since that day. At least 17,921 of the deceased are children, according to the UNwhich means that 28 minors are killed every day on average.
– The ministry also ensures that 1,060 people have died trying to get food Since May 27, before the famine that looms on the strip. At least 113 people have starved since October 7, 2023according to the Gazati authorities.
– Food prices have increased 40 times. A kilo of lentils costs $ 23. 1 kilo of flour costs $ 30, as well as a kilo of rice, 1 kilo of sugar costs $ 100.
– An analysis of the integrated classification of phases of food security estimates that Between April 2025 and March 2026, 71,000 children between six months and five years will suffer from acute malnutrition, including 14,100 severe cases. Since April 2025, the UN has identified more than 3,600 cases of acute malnutrition among 23,760 children under five examined.
— 88% of the territory of the Strip has been declared as a militarized zone or it has been put under the order of eviction, so More than two million people are in the remaining 12%a territory of less than 45 square kilometers ,. That means that two million people live in an area less than that of the Madrid districts of Puente de Vallecas, Hortaleza and Retiro togetherthat measure 50.66 square kilometers and house just over 450,000 people, that is, four times less population.
– At least 926 health workers in Gaza have died and 302 have been arrested.
— There is no hospital in the strip that works 100% of its capabilities. Before the war there were 36.
