Documenting the Human Cost
Each dot below represents a name. A family. A future that was taken. Scroll to witness the scale of this tragedy.
Each Dot is a Name
Hover over the dots to reveal names of the killed. Each flower represents an age group. Each dot is a life that was taken. Names are loaded from the verified casualty list.
The Names
Behind every statistic is an identity. A name given with love by parents who imagined a future. Over 60,000 names have been identified and documented.
Each name to the right is scrolling in real time from the verified casualty list. Names in red are children under 18. Names in pink are women.
View the full memorial wall->60,199 names identified. Thousands more remain under rubble.
The Numbers
Each statistic represents an unfathomable scale of human suffering. 80% of those killed are estimated to be civilians.
Palestinian people killed
This does not include unidentified bodies or people still under rubble. The Lancet estimates the true toll exceeds 186,000.
Children killed
More children have died in Gaza than in all global conflicts combined over the past four years.
Women killed
70% of those killed in residential buildings were women and children.
People injured
Gaza has the highest rate of child amputees per capita in the world.
Entire families erased
Entire family trees dismembered from the civil registry. Whole lineages obliterated.
Journalists killed
The deadliest conflict for journalists in modern history.
Healthcare workers killed
Aid workers killed
Including 179 UNRWA employees. More UN workers have died than in any other conflict.
People displaced
90% of the population has been displaced at least once. Many have been displaced 10+ times.
"100% of the population of Gaza faces high levels of acute food insecurity. There is a reasonable basis to believe that the threshold indicating famine has been met."
-- IPC Famine Review Committee, 2024
Scale of Loss
The 75,000 confirmed kills represent the highest rate of killing in any conflict of the 21st century. In proportional terms, this is equivalent to 3.5% of the total population.
Applied to the population of the United States, this would be equivalent to 11.5 million deaths. Applied to the UK, 2.3 million.
The conflict has produced the largest number of child amputees per capita anywhere in the world. Doctors report performing amputations on children without anesthesia due to the total collapse of medical supplies.
40% of those killed are children under the age of 18. Gaza's Ministry of Education announced the end of the 2023/2024 academic year "due to the martyrdom of many of our students."
According to the United Nations, 50,000 women in Gaza are currently pregnant. 10% are due within the next 30 days, with no functioning maternity wards available.
Infrastructure Destruction
Population: 2.1 million people confined to 365 km2. Over 70% of residential buildings in northern areas have been damaged or destroyed, along with hospitals, schools, and mosques.
North Gaza
430k people
68-81%
Gaza City
731k people
71-83%
Deir Al-Balah
310k people
30-39%
Khan Younis
426k people
38-49%
Rafah
267k people
18-27%
Mediterranean Sea
70%
Housing destroyed in the north
26
Of 36 hospitals non-functional
625
Mosques damaged or destroyed
3
Universities completely destroyed
Timeline
October 7, 2023
Following the Hamas attack on southern Israel, Israel launches Operation Swords of Iron. Gaza is placed under complete siege - electricity, water, food, and fuel are cut off.
October 13, 2023
Israel orders 1.1 million people in northern Gaza to evacuate south within 24 hours. The UN calls this impossible. Bombing of evacuation routes follows.
October 17, 2023
Explosion at Al-Ahli Arab Hospital kills hundreds. International outrage erupts as medical infrastructure is increasingly targeted.
November 2023
Multiple complete communication blackouts imposed across Gaza. Journalists and aid workers are unable to coordinate. The death toll passes 10,000.
December 2023
WHO reports Gaza's healthcare system has collapsed. 26 of 36 hospitals are no longer functional. Aid deliveries are repeatedly blocked or delayed.
January 2024
The International Court of Justice orders Israel to take measures to prevent genocide and allow humanitarian aid. Death toll surpasses 25,000.
April 2024
IPC classifies northern Gaza in famine conditions. Children are dying of starvation. The entire population of 2.1 million faces acute food insecurity.
July 2024
The Lancet estimates the true death toll could be 186,000 when accounting for indirect deaths from disease, starvation, and destruction of healthcare.
2025
The death toll surpasses 75,000 confirmed kills. Over 100,000 injured. 1,500 families entirely wiped from the civil registry. 60% of all buildings destroyed.
Individual Stories
Behind every statistic is a name, a family, a story that was cut short. These are just a handful of the tens of thousands whose lives have been documented.
Hind called emergency services from inside a car surrounded by tanks, trapped with the bodies of her dead relatives. The two paramedics dispatched to rescue her were also killed. Her body was found 12 days later.
Hind Rajab
Age 6
His body was identified by his own father -- a doctor on duty at the hospital where his son was brought in.
Yousef Abu Moussa
Age 6
A student killed in an Israeli airstrike on Al Nuseirat refugee camp, just days after receiving top marks in her high school examinations.
Al-Shaima Akram Saidam
Age 18
A pregnant woman killed by shrapnel from a missile strike, together with her 14-month-old niece who died in her arms.
Palestine Abu Abrar
Age 37
A professor of literature and acclaimed poet. He was killed in a targeted strike along with his brother, sister, and their children. His last poem, 'If I Must Die,' became a global symbol of resistance.
Dr. Refaat Alareer
Age 44
Son of Al Jazeera journalist Wael Al-Dahdouh. Killed along with his mother, sister, brother, and grandfather while sheltering in a designated 'safe zone.'
Wael Al-Dahdouh
Age 15
Over 60% of Gazans have lost family members since the war began. Thousands of bodies remain unrecovered beneath rubble.