By Palestine Chronicle Staff
One thousand days after Israel’s genocide in Gaza began, new figures reveal the devastating human toll as resistance factions reaffirm defiance.
Key Developments
- Gaza’s Government Media Office released updated figures detailing the human cost after 1,000 days of war.
- Palestinian resistance factions said Israel failed to achieve its military and political objectives.
- The factions rejected foreign oversight of Gaza and called for Palestinian national dialogue.
Gaza Marks 1,000 Days of Genocide
One thousand days after the start of Israel’s genocide in the Gaza Strip, the Government Media Office released new figures illustrating what it described as the unprecedented humanitarian cost of the war.
According to the office, 73,066 Palestinians have been killed since October 7, 2023, while 9,500 remain missing beneath the rubble or whose fate remains unknown. The number of wounded has reached 173,514, including more than 19,000 people requiring long-term rehabilitation.
The data highlights the disproportionate impact on children and women. More than 21,500 children have been killed, including 1,022 infants under one year of age and 520 babies born during the war who were later killed. More than 12,500 women have also been killed, including over 9,000 mothers.
The report says 22,500 fathers have been killed, leaving 58,800 children orphaned, including 2,700 who lost both parents, while the number of widows has reached 26,370.
Entire Families Wiped Out
The Government Media Office said Israeli attacks completely erased 2,700 Palestinian families from the civil registry after every family member was killed.
In another 6,020 families, only a single survivor remained, while more than 39,000 families were subjected to direct massacres during the war.
According to the report, 55 percent of those killed were children, women or elderly people.
It also documented 460 deaths from hunger and malnutrition, including 164 children, as well as 28 displaced Palestinians—mostly children—who died from exposure to cold inside displacement camps.
Health System Devastated
The report said the war has also taken a devastating toll on Gaza’s essential services.
Among those killed were 1,700 medical personnel, 145 civil defense workers, and 262 journalists, alongside hundreds of municipal employees and aid security personnel.
Health authorities also documented more than 12,000 miscarriages and abortions linked to malnutrition and the collapse of Gaza’s healthcare system.
The Government Media Office said the figures reflect the unprecedented human cost of what it described as an ongoing genocide, warning that continuous bombardment, destruction and deprivation of basic necessities continue to deepen the humanitarian catastrophe.
Resistance: Israel Failed
Marking the 1,000th day of the war, Palestinian resistance groups issued a joint statement declaring that Israel had failed to achieve the objectives it announced at the beginning of the military campaign.
The factions said Israeli plans to displace Palestinians and uproot Gaza’s population had failed despite the scale of destruction and suffering.
“The confrontation with the Zionist-American and Western colonial system, armed with every kind of weapon, has not defeated the spirit of the Palestinian people,” the statement said.
The factions described Operation Al-Aqsa Flood as part of a broader struggle dating back to 1948, arguing that it came in response to decades of occupation, settlement expansion, the blockade of Gaza and continuing Israeli attacks across the occupied Palestinian territories.
They also warned against portraying October 7, 2023, as the beginning of the war, insisting that Israeli violence against Palestinians long predated the operation.
Rejecting Foreign Control over Gaza
The resistance factions reiterated their rejection of any foreign guardianship over Palestinian affairs, stressing that the administration of Gaza remains an exclusively Palestinian matter.
They called for the rapid deployment of the proposed technocrat committee to assume administrative responsibilities in the Strip and urged the launch of a comprehensive Palestinian national dialogue to rebuild national institutions, including the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), on the basis of a broad political partnership.
The statement concluded by calling on Arab and Islamic countries to intensify efforts to secure a permanent ceasefire, increase pressure on Israel, and oppose all forms of normalization with the occupation, while paying tribute to Palestinians killed throughout Gaza, the occupied West Bank, occupied al-Quds and other fronts.
Reprinted from Palestine Chronicle
