• Palestinians killed in Gaza §6.3
  73,670
  Gaza Ministry of HealthUN OCHA
  Gaza MoH / OCHA
• Children killed in Gaza §6.3
  20,179
  Gaza Ministry of HealthUN Commission of Inquiry on the OPT
  Gaza MoH / UN COI
• Injured in Gaza §6.3
  174,682
  Gaza Ministry of Health
  Gaza MoH
• Displaced in Gaza §6.3
  1,900,000
  UN OCHAUNRWA
  UNRWA / OCHA
• Killed in the West Bank §9.2
  1,114
  UN OCHA
  OCHA
• Settler attacks recorded §9.2
  4,554
  UN OCHA
  OCHA
• Settlers in occupied territory §3.3
  700,000
  UN Human Rights Council
  UN Human Rights Council, 2026
• States recognising Palestine §15.1
  157
  UN membership and treaty records
  UN membership records
• Headline figures
  73,651
  Gaza Ministry of Health
  Gaza MoH (5 Sept 2026)
• Headline figures
  73,329
  Gaza Ministry of HealthWAFA (Palestinian news agency)
  Gaza MoH / WAFA (July 2026)
• Headline figures
  71,803
  UNICEF
  UNICEF / UN (Feb 2026)
• Headline figures
  75,811
  UN OCHA
  OCHA cumulative (May 2026)
• Headline figures
  75,200
  The Lancet and Lancet Global Health
  Lancet Global Health (2025)
• Headline figures
  78,318
  Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
  Max Planck Institute (2025)
• Headline figures
  100,000
  Derived within this record
  Independent modelling (late 2025)
• Headline figures
  186,000
  Brown University Costs of War
  Brown Costs of War (incl. indirect)
• Children
  20,179
  Gaza Ministry of HealthUN Commission of Inquiry on the OPT
  Gaza MoH / UN COI
• Women
  12,500
  Gaza Ministry of Health
  Gaza MoH
• Medical personnel
  1,701
  Gaza Ministry of HealthWorld Health Organization
  WHO / Gaza MoH
• Aid workers
  589
  OHCHR
  OHCHR, April 2026
• UN staff
  397
  OHCHR
  OHCHR — highest in UN history
• Journalists
  262
  Gaza Ministry of HealthCommittee to Protect Journalists
  Gaza MoH / CPJ
• Civil defence
  140
  Gaza Civil Defence
  Gaza Civil Defence
• The legal machinery of transfer: how expulsion became title §2.4
  BADIL Resource CenterAdalah
  Absentees' Property Law 5710-1950 (Adalah Discriminatory Laws Database); Development Authority (Transfer of Property) Law 5710-1950 (UNCCP, UNISPAL); Land Acquisition (Validation of Acts and Compensation) Law 5713-1953; BADIL; Norwegian Refugee Council
• Starvation deaths recorded
  440
  Gaza Ministry of HealthIPC Famine Review Committee
  IPC / Gaza MoH
• Facing severe hunger
  1,600,000
  IPC Famine Review Committee
  IPC
• Displaced
  1,900,000
  UNRWA
  UNRWA
• Deaths in Israeli custody since Oct 2023
  98
  Physicians for Human Rights Israel
  Physicians for Human Rights–Israel
• Antisemitic incidents in the UK, and what the series tracks §21.6
  Community Security Trust
  CST, Antisemitic Incidents Report 2025 (11 February 2026)
• Home Office protective security for faith sites, 2026/27 §21.6, §22
  UK Government records
  Home Office, “Record funding to protect faith communities”, 19 February 2026
• The J50 Declaration on Zionism and Antisemitism 11 September 2026
  Founding Zionist texts and primary documents
  J50 Declaration on Zionism and Antisemitism, issued on the eve of Rosh Hashanah 5787 and published by the European Jewish Congress
• The J50 Forum
  Established by Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar in May 2025 and convened by Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Its third meeting was held in Jerusalem on 1 September 2026, chaired by William Daroff of the Conference of Presidents, with 59…
  JNS
  Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs; JNS, 1 September 2026
• Ahad Ha'am (Asher Ginsberg) 1891
  [Jewish settlers] treat the Arabs with hostility and cruelty, trespass unjustly upon their boundaries, beat them shamefully without reason, and even brag about it.
  Founding Zionist texts and primary documents
  Ahad Ha'am, “Truth from Eretz Yisrael”, 1891.
• Theodor Herzl 1896
  [A Jewish state in Palestine would form] a portion of a rampart of Europe against Asia, an outpost of civilization as opposed to barbarism.
  Founding Zionist texts and primary documents
  Theodor Herzl, Der Judenstaat, 1896.
• Central Conference of American Rabbis 1897
  We totally disapprove of any attempt for the establishment of a Jewish state. Such attempts show a misunderstanding of Israel’s mission.
  Peer-reviewed journals and university pressesDerived within this record
  Central Conference of American Rabbis, 1897; American Jewish Archives; Posen Library. Report §23.2.
• Vladimir Jabotinsky 1923
  [Zionist settlement is] a colonising adventure [that will be resisted] as any indigenous people [would resist]… colonisation can have only one goal [and must proceed] regardless of the native population.
  Rashid Khalidi, The Hundred Years War on PalestineFounding Zionist texts and primary documents
  Vladimir Jabotinsky, “The Iron Wall”, 1923; cited in Rashid Khalidi, The Hundred Years' War on Palestine (2020).
• David Ben-Gurion 12 July 1937
  [Compulsory transfer is] an opportunity which we never dared to dream of in our wildest imaginings… national consolidation in a free homeland.
  Israel State Archives and cabinet recordsBenny Morris and the Israeli New Historians
  Ben-Gurion diaries, 12 July 1937; 1937 Ben-Gurion letter; Benny Morris, The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited (2004).
• Arthur Ruppin 1938
  I do not believe in the transfer of the individual, I believe in the transfer of entire [Palestinian] villages.
  Palquest / Institute for Palestine StudiesIsrael State Archives and cabinet records
  Jewish Agency Executive minutes, 1938; Institute for Palestine Studies.
• American Council for Judaism December 1942
  [Judaism is] a religion of universal values, not a nationality; Palestine should become a democratic state in which all citizens hold equal political rights irrespective of religion.
  Peer-reviewed journals and university pressesDerived within this record
  Thomas A. Kolsky, Jews Against Zionism: The American Council for Judaism, 1942–1948 (Temple University Press, 1990); Jewish Virtual Library. Report §23.2.
• Yitzhak Yezernitzky (Yitzhak Shamir) 1943
  Neither Jewish ethics nor Jewish tradition can disqualify terrorism as a means of combat. We are very far from having any moral qualms as far as our national war goes.
  MERIP
  MERIP, “Document: Shamir on Terrorism (1943)”, May 1988
• Albert Einstein, Hannah Arendt, Sidney Hook and others 4 December 1948
  [Herut is] a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties.
  The New York Times
  The New York Times, 4 December 1948.
• Moshe Dayan 19 March 1969
  Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist. Not only do the books not exist, the Arab villages are not the…
  Haaretz
  Haaretz, 4 April 1969; Edward Said, The Question of Palestine (1980).
• Golda Meir 15 June 1969
  There was no such thing as Palestinians. When was there an independent Palestinian people with a Palestinian state? … It was not as though there was a Palestinian people in Palestine considering itself as a Palestinian people and we came a…
  Rashid Khalidi, The Hundred Years War on PalestineThe Sunday Times
  The Sunday Times, 15 June 1969; cited in Rashid Khalidi, The Hundred Years' War on Palestine (2020) and Edward Said, The Question of Palestine (1980).
• Yitzhak Rabin 1976
  [Israel risks becoming an apartheid state if it annexes and absorbs the West Bank's Arab population.]
  Israeli broadcast media
  Contemporaneous Israeli press, 1976; collated in Israeli apartheid scholarship.
• Lt. Gen. Rafael Eitan April 1983
  When we have settled the land, all the Arabs will be able to do about it will be to scurry around like drugged cockroaches in a bottle.
  Ynet and Yedioth AhronothThe New York Times
  Yediot Ahronot, 13 April 1983 (Gad Becker); The New York Times, 14 April 1983.
• Yitzhak Rabin January 1988
  [Ordering soldiers to] break their bones.
  B'TselemEntertainment and trade press
  Contemporaneous Israeli and international press, January 1988; B'Tselem.
• Ilan Pappé 2006
  [The 1948 expulsion of the Palestinians was] an ethnic cleansing operation [planned in advance and executed systematically.]
  Benny Morris and the Israeli New Historians
  Ilan Pappé, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (2006).
• Ehud Olmert November 2007
  [If the two-state solution collapses, Israel will] face a South African-style struggle for equal voting rights, and as soon as that happens, the state of Israel is finished.
  HaaretzThe Guardian
  Haaretz; The Guardian, November 2007.
• Maj. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot 2008
  What happened in the Dahiya quarter of Beirut in 2006 will happen in every village from which Israel is fired on. […] We will apply disproportionate force on it… From our standpoint, these are not civilian villages, they are military bases.
  UN Goldstone Report (2009)UN Human Rights CouncilYnet and Yedioth Ahronoth
  Yedioth Ahronoth, October 2008; cited in the UN Goldstone Report (A/HRC/12/48, 2009).
• Avi Shlaim 14 January 2009
  My definition of ‘terror’ is the use of violence against civilians for political purposes.
  Documentary film and broadcast interviews
  Democracy Now!, 14 January 2009
• Ehud Barak 2 February 2010
  As long as in this territory west of the Jordan River there is only one political entity called Israel it is going to be either non-Jewish, or non-democratic. If this bloc of millions of Palestinians cannot vote, that will be an apartheid…
  Haaretz
  Haaretz, 2 February 2010.
• Avraham Shalom 2012
  We have become cruel, to ourselves as well, but mainly to the occupied population, using the excuse of the war on terror.
  Documentary film and broadcast interviews
  The Gatekeepers (dir. Dror Moreh, 2012)
• Michael Ben-Yair November 2014
  [Israel has imposed] an apartheid regime [on the West Bank.]
  Israeli and European press reporting
  Israeli and European press, November 2014.
• Meir Dagan 2015
  [Continuing Netanyahu's policies will result in an Israel that is] either a binational state or an apartheid state.
  Israeli broadcast media
  Israeli press, 2015.
• Bezalel Smotrich 2017
  [The Palestinian people are] an invention of less than a hundred years.
  Israeli broadcast mediaInternational Association of Genocide Scholars
  Israeli media, 2017; cited by genocide scholars as precursor speech.
• Avigdor Lieberman 15 April 2018
  There are no innocent people in the Gaza Strip.
  The Jerusalem PostEntertainment and trade press
  AFP and The Jerusalem Post, 16 April 2018, reporting remarks made the previous day.
• Lod District Court (Israel) May 2020
  Extreme and racist ideology.
  High Court of Justice (Israel)The Times of Israel
  Lod District Court and Supreme Court of Israel; The Times of Israel
• B'Tselem 12 January 2021
  This is not democracy plus occupation. This is apartheid between the river and the sea.
  B'Tselem
  B'Tselem, 12 January 2021.
• Human Rights Watch 27 April 2021
  [Israeli authorities are committing] the crimes against humanity of apartheid and persecution.
  Human Rights Watch
  Human Rights Watch, “A Threshold Crossed”, 27 April 2021.
• Amnesty International 1 February 2022
  [Israel maintains] a system of oppression and domination [over Palestinians, meeting the international legal definition of apartheid.]
  Amnesty International
  Amnesty International, “Israel's Apartheid Against Palestinians”, 1 February 2022.
• Tally Gotliv 7 October 2023
  Bring down buildings! Bomb without distinction!! Stop with this impotence. You have ability. There is worldwide legitimacy! Flatten Gaza. Without mercy! This time, there is no room for mercy.
  Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor
  Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor.
• Ariel Kallner 8 October 2023
  Nakba to the enemy now! This day is our Pearl Harbor. We will still learn the lessons. Right now, one goal: Nakba! A Nakba that will overshadow the Nakba of 48. A Nakba in Gaza and a Nakba for anyone who dares to join.
  Law for PalestineEuro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor
  Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor; Law for Palestine database.
• Nissim Vaturi 9 October 2023
  Erase Gaza. Nothing else will satisfy us. It is not acceptable that we maintain a terrorist authority next to Israel. Don't leave a child there — expel everyone.
  Israeli broadcast mediaEuro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor
  Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor; Israeli media, 2023–2026.
• Yoav Gallant 9 October 2023
  I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed. We are fighting human animals, and we are acting accordingly.
  International Court of JusticeIsraeli Ministry of Defense
  Israeli Ministry of Defence statement, 9 October 2023; cited in South Africa v. Israel, ICJ.
• Yoav Kisch 9 October 2023
  Those are animals, they have no right to exist. I am not debating the way it will happen, but they need to be exterminated… until we see hundreds of thousands fleeing Gaza, we, the IDF has not achieved its mission.
  Law for PalestineEuro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor
  Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor; Law for Palestine database.
• Maj. Gen. Ghassan Alian 10 October 2023
  Human animals must be treated as such. There will be no electricity and no water, there will only be destruction. You wanted hell, you will get hell.
  COGAT
  COGAT official channels, 10 October 2023.
• Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari 10 October 2023
  The emphasis is on damage and not on accuracy.
  HaaretzMiddle East EyeEntertainment and trade press
  Haaretz live blog, 10 October 2023, reported in English by Middle East Eye and Common Dreams the same day.
• Yoav Gallant 10 October 2023
  Gaza won't return to what it was before. We will eliminate everything.
  UN Commission of Inquiry on the OPTIsraeli broadcast media
  Israeli media, 10 October 2023; cited by the UN Commission of Inquiry, September 2025.
• Ezra Yachin 12 October 2023
  Be triumphant and finish them off, and don't leave anyone behind. Erase the memory of them.
  International Court of JusticeMiddle East Eye
  Read to the International Court of Justice by advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi for South Africa, 11 January 2024; reported by Middle East Eye and the World Socialist Web Site.
• Israel Katz 12 October 2023
  Humanitarian aid to Gaza? No electrical switch will be turned on, no water hydrant will be opened, and no fuel truck will enter Gaza until the Israeli abductees are returned. No one will preach morals to us.
  Israeli broadcast mediaEuro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor
  Israeli media, 12 October 2023; Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor.
• Isaac Herzog 13 October 2023
  It is an entire nation out there that is responsible. It is not true this rhetoric about civilians not aware, not involved. It's absolutely not true. They could've risen up, they could have fought against that evil regime.
  Israeli broadcast mediaEuro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor
  Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor; multiple Israeli outlets, 13 October 2023.
• May Golan 13 October 2023
  I don't care about Gaza. I literally don't care at all. They can go out and swim in the sea. I want to see dead bodies of terrorists around Gaza. […] I am personally proud of the ruins of Gaza.
  Israeli broadcast mediaEuro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor
  Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor; Israeli media, October 2023.
• Galit Distel-Atbaryan October 2023
  Erase all of Gaza from the face of the earth.
  Law for PalestineEuro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor
  Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor; Law for Palestine database.
• Meirav Ben-Ari 16 October 2023
  The children of Gaza have brought this upon themselves.
  KnessetEntertainment and trade press
  Knesset session video of 16 October 2023, timestamped and translated by Jonathan Ofir for Mondoweiss; republished by Truthout. The National rendered the line as “The children of Gaza brought it upon themselves.”
• Almog Cohen 23 October 2023
  Destroy a neighborhood in Gaza everyday the abductees are in their hands. If we blink, we run out of global credit. Every day that the abductees are with them, a neighborhood must be destroyed on its inhabitants.
  Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor
  Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor.
• Tally Gotliv 23 October 2023
  Without hunger and thirst among the Gazan population, we will not succeed in recruiting collaborators, we will not succeed in recruiting intelligence, or in bribing people with food, drink, medicine, in order to obtain intelligence.
  Israeli broadcast mediaEuro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor
  Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor; Israeli press, October 2023.
• Ohad Tal 23 October 2023
  We cannot go back to the same conception… we need to exact a territorial price from them, including returning Jewish settlements at least to the north of Gaza Strip.
  Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor
  Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor.
• Benjamin Netanyahu 28 October 2023
  You must remember what Amalek did to you, says our Holy Bible. And we do remember.
  UN Commission of Inquiry on the OPTInternational Court of JusticeInternational Association of Genocide Scholars
  National broadcast, 28 October 2023; cited in South Africa's ICJ application, the UN Commission of Inquiry and the IAGS resolution.
• Itamar Ben-Gvir 2023
  We will encourage voluntary transfer of all Gazan citizens. We will offer them the opportunity to move to other countries because that land belongs to us.
  Law for PalestineIsraeli broadcast media
  Israeli media, 2023; Law for Palestine database.
• Bezalel Smotrich 2023
  There are no uninvolved civilians in Gaza.
  Law for PalestineIsraeli broadcast media
  Israeli media, 2023; Law for Palestine database.
• Benjamin Netanyahu 3 November 2023
  This is the war between the sons of light and the sons of darkness. We will not let up on our mission until the light overcomes the darkness.
  Al-HaqThe Jerusalem Post
  Letter of 3 November 2023, reported by The Jerusalem Post; translated in Al-Haq's compilation “Statements by Israeli Officials, Soldiers and Civil Society on Genocide”, January 2024.
• Amichai Eliyahu 5 November 2023
  [Asked whether Israel should drop a nuclear bomb on Gaza:] That's one way.
  Israeli broadcast mediaEntertainment and trade press
  Israeli radio, 5 November 2023; international wire coverage.
• Yitzhak Kroizer 5 November 2023
  The Gaza Strip should be flattened, and there should be one sentence for everyone there — death. […] We have to wipe the Gaza Strip off the map. […] There are no innocents there.
  Al-HaqIsraeli broadcast media
  Galey Israel, 5 November 2023; official translation in Al-Haq's compilation “Statements by Israeli Officials, Soldiers and Civil Society on Genocide”, January 2024.
• Avi Dichter November 2023
  [This is] Gaza Nakba 2023.
  Law for PalestineIsraeli broadcast media
  Israeli television, November 2023; Law for Palestine database.
• Benjamin Netanyahu November 2023
  [Letter to Israeli soldiers invoking the biblical war of total annihilation.]
  UN Commission of Inquiry on the OPTUN Human Rights Council
  UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the OPT, A/HRC/60/CRP.3, 16 September 2025.
• Maj. Gen. (res.) Giora Eiland November 2023
  Severe epidemics in the south of the Gaza Strip will bring victory closer.
  Ynet and Yedioth AhronothThe New Arab
  Yedioth Ahronoth, November 2023; translated and reported by The New Arab and others.
• Masha Gessen 9 December 2023
  For the last seventeen years, Gaza has been a hyperdensely populated, impoverished, walled-in compound where only a small fraction of the population had the right to leave for even a short amount of time — in other words, a ghetto.
  Documentary film and broadcast interviewsThe New YorkerDerived within this record
  The New Yorker, 9 December 2023; Jewish Telegraphic Agency; Democracy Now!, 15 December 2023. Report §23.3.
• Law for Palestine 4 January 2024 (continuously updated)
  500+ instances of Israeli incitement to genocide.
  Law for PalestineTRT WorldEntertainment and trade press
  Law for Palestine, 4 January 2024; ReliefWeb; TRT World.
• International Court of Justice 26 January 2024
  [Israel must] take all measures within its power to prevent and punish the direct and public incitement to commit genocide in relation to members of the Palestinian group in the Gaza Strip.
  International Court of Justice
  ICJ, Order of 26 January 2024, South Africa v. Israel.
• Jonathan Glazer 10 March 2024
  Right now we stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation, which has led to conflict for so many innocent people — whether the victims of October the 7th in Israel or the ongoing attack on…
  The Times of IsraelEntertainment and trade pressDerived within this record
  The Hollywood Reporter; Variety; Times of Israel, March–April 2024. Report §23.4.
• Francesca Albanese March 2024
  [There are reasonable grounds to believe that the threshold indicating Israel's commission of genocide has been met.]
  UN Human Rights CouncilUN Special Rapporteurs
  UN Special Rapporteur, “Anatomy of a Genocide”, A/HRC/55/73, March 2024.
• Naomi Klein 23 April 2024
  Too many of our people are worshipping a false idol once again… That false idol is called Zionism. [It] has taken the idea of the promised land and turned it into a deed of sale for a militaristic ethnostate… [it] has betrayed every Jewish…
  The GuardianDerived within this record
  The Guardian, 24 April 2024. Report §23.4.
• Al-Haq Forensic Architecture Investigation Unit 2024–2026 (continuously updated)
  A Registry of Israeli Genocidal Statements on Gaza — over 1,000 instances of incitement and genocidal intent documented since 7 October 2023.
  Al-Haq
  Al-Haq FAI Unit, alhaq.org/FAI-Unit/26257.html.
• Gabor Maté 2024
  What Israel is doing in Gaza is energetically almost identical to what the Nazis did.
  Documentary film and broadcast interviewsAl JazeeraDerived within this record
  Interview with Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, 2024; The Real News Network; Al Jazeera, 26 June 2025. Report §23.3.
• International Court of Justice 19 July 2024
  [Israel's legislation and measures] impose and serve to maintain a near-complete separation in the West Bank and East Jerusalem between the settler and Palestinian communities [and] constitute a breach of Article 3 of CERD.
  International Court of Justice
  ICJ Advisory Opinion, 19 July 2024, paras. 224–229; separate opinions of Judges Nolte, Iwasawa and Tladi.
• Anonymous IDF officer 13 August 2024
  In Gaza, human shields are used by Israeli soldiers at least six times a day… almost every platoon [keeps a Palestinian detainee for this purpose].
  Haaretz
  Haaretz, 13 August 2024.
• Bezalel Smotrich August 2024
  [Calling for the] total annihilation [of Gaza, invoking the biblical injunction against Amalek.]
  Israeli broadcast mediaAl Jazeera
  Israeli media; Al Jazeera, August 2024.
• International Criminal Court, Pre-Trial Chamber I 21 November 2024
  [There are reasonable grounds to believe that Netanyahu and Gallant bear criminal responsibility for] the war crime of starvation as a method of warfare [and crimes against humanity of murder, persecution and other inhumane acts.]
  International Criminal Court
  ICC Pre-Trial Chamber I, 21 November 2024.
• Yesh Din 2005–2026 (cumulative monitoring)
  [Over 93 per cent of investigations into settler violence against Palestinians are closed without indictment.]
  Yesh Din
  Yesh Din, law enforcement data sheets, 2005–2026.
• Moshe Ya'alon 2 December 2024
  The road we are being led down is conquest, annexation and ethnic cleansing.
  Israeli broadcast media
  Democrat TV and Kan, reported 1-2 December 2024
• Donald J. Trump 4 February 2025
  The US will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with it too… We'll own it… Level the site, and get rid of the destroyed buildings, level it out, create an economic development…
  CNNNPRAl JazeeraFortune
  Al Jazeera; CNN; NPR; Fortune, 5 February 2025.
• Geocartography Knowledge Group / Penn State University March 2025
  82 per cent support the forced expulsion of the entire Palestinian population of Gaza; 47 per cent answered yes when asked whether the Israeli army should act as the biblical Israelites did under Joshua at Jericho — that is, kill all the i…
  HaaretzGenocide WatchMiddle East EyeTRT WorldEntertainment and trade press
  Published in Haaretz; Geopolitical Economy Report, 30 May 2025; Middle East Eye; Genocide Watch; TRT World.
• Hana Bendcowsky 27 March 2025
  Being the majority and having our own state comes with responsibilities.
  The Times of Israel
  The Times of Israel, 27 March 2025
• Bezalel Smotrich 7 April 2025
  Read my lips: not a single grain of wheat will enter Gaza.
  Ynet and Yedioth AhronothIsraeli broadcast mediaNPREntertainment and trade press
  Israel National News; Ynetnews; NPR; Press TV, April 2025.
• Breaking the Silence April 2025
  We decided on a line which is the borderline, past which everyone is a suspect, but it's not clear to me how familiar Palestinians are with this line.
  Breaking the Silence
  Breaking the Silence, “The Perimeter”, April 2025.
• Bezalel Smotrich 6 May 2025
  Gaza will be entirely destroyed [and Palestinians will] leave in great numbers to third countries.
  Al Jazeera
  Al Jazeera, 6 May 2025.
• Michal Waldiger 13 May 2025
  There are no uninvolved in Gaza. […] [Of the children:] Yes, they will also have to kill them, because there is no choice. […] It is a shame that what's been done in Gaza didn't get worse.
  Middle East Eye
  Middle East Eye, 13 May 2025; Israeli and international media.
• Benjamin Netanyahu May 2025
  We are destroying more and more houses [so that Palestinians] have nowhere to return… the only obvious result will be Gazans choosing to emigrate outside of the Strip… but our main problem is finding countries to take them in.
  The Times of IsraelInternational Commission of Jurists
  Times of Israel liveblog, May 2025; International Commission of Jurists analysis.
• Moshe Feiglin c. 20 May 2025
  The enemy is not Hamas… Every child, every baby in Gaza is an enemy. […] [Gaza must be] occupied as well as settled [and] not a single child should remain. […] Every child of this kind to whom you're giving milk now — in 15 years will rape…
  MaarivMiddle East EyeTRT World
  Middle East Eye; TRT World; Antiwar.com; Maariv, May 2025.
• Shlomo Karhi 2025
  'Voluntary' is at times a state you impose [on someone] until they give their consent.
  Israeli broadcast media
  Israeli media, 2025.
• Avi Shlaim July 2025
  Israel refuses to allow humanitarian aid to civilians and uses starvation as a weapon of war. If that’s not genocide, I don’t know what is.
  Benny Morris and the Israeli New HistoriansPeer-reviewed journals and university pressesDerived within this record
  Jacobin, July 2025; Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies, 2025–2026; Avi Shlaim, Genocide in Gaza (Irish Pages Press, 2024). Report §23.3.
• Israeli public opinion 2025
  65 per cent of Jewish Israelis believe the IDF is held back from achieving its military objectives by adherence to the principle of minimising unnecessary killing and harm to civilians.
  The Times of Israel
  Times of Israel, 2025.
• Israel Katz 7 July 2025
  [The military is to prepare a] humanitarian city [on the ruins of Rafah; an initial 600,000 displaced Palestinians from al-Mawasi would enter within 60 days of a ceasefire, and eventually the whole population of Gaza. Those admitted] would…
  The Times of IsraelThe GuardianAl JazeeraDerived within this record
  Briefing to Israeli reporters, 7 July 2025; The Guardian; The Times of Israel; Al Jazeera satellite analysis, 13 July 2025. Report §6.3A.
• Ehud Olmert 13 July 2025
  It is a concentration camp. I am sorry. … If they will be deported into the new 'humanitarian city', then you can say that this is part of an ethnic cleansing.
  The Times of IsraelThe GuardianCNNDerived within this record
  The Guardian, 13 July 2025; CNN, 14 July 2025; The Times of Israel. Report §6.3A, §21.8.
• Yair Lapid 13 July 2025
  I don't prefer to describe a humanitarian city as a concentration camp, but if exiting it is prohibited, then it is a concentration camp.
  Israel Defense ForcesThe Times of IsraelDerived within this record
  Israeli Army Radio, 13 July 2025; The Times of Israel. Report §6.3A, §21.8.
• Physicians for Human Rights Israel July 2025
  [Israel's systematic destruction of Gaza's health system constitutes an act of genocide.]
  B'TselemPhysicians for Human Rights Israel
  Physicians for Human Rights Israel, July 2025; B'Tselem, “Our Genocide”, July 2025.
• Lieutenant General Eyal Zamir July 2025
  [The army] does not impose forced population expulsions inside or outside the Gaza Strip.
  High Court of Justice (Israel)The Times of IsraelThe Wall Street JournalDerived within this record
  Israel's High Court of Justice, July 2025; The Wall Street Journal; The Times of Israel. Report §6.3A.
• Yuli Novak 28 July 2025
  Nothing prepares you for the realization that you are part of a society committing genocide.
  B'Tselem
  B'Tselem, “Our Genocide”, 28 July 2025
• aChord Center, Hebrew University of Jerusalem August 2025
  76 per cent of Jewish Israelis agree or partially agree that there are no innocents in Gaza.
  HaaretzMiddle East Eye
  aChord Center, Hebrew University; Haaretz; Middle East Eye, August 2025.
• Maj. Gen. Aharon Haliva August 2025
  For everything that happened on October 7, for every one person on October 7, 50 Palestinians must die. […] The fact that there are already 50,000 dead in Gaza is necessary and required for future generations. […] There is no choice — ever…
  Law for PalestineUN Commission of Inquiry on the OPTIsraeli broadcast media
  Channel 12, August 2025; UN Commission of Inquiry; Law for Palestine database.
• International Association of Genocide Scholars 31 August 2025
  [Israel's actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide under the 1948 Convention.]
  International Association of Genocide Scholars
  International Association of Genocide Scholars resolution, 31 August/1 September 2025.
• Bezalel Smotrich September 2025
  The overriding principle for applying sovereignty [to the West Bank] is maximum territory with minimum Arabs… There will never, and can never be, a Palestinian state in our land.
  The Times of IsraelThe Jerusalem Post
  Times of Israel; Jerusalem Post; Crisis Group, “Israel's Quickening Annexation of the West Bank”, October 2025.
• Hannah Einbinder 14 September 2025
  It is my obligation as a Jewish person to distinguish Jews from the state of Israel. Our religion and our culture is really separate to this sort of ethnonationalist state.
  NBC NewsEntertainment and trade pressDerived within this record
  The Hollywood Reporter; Deadline; NBC News, September 2025. Report §23.4.
• Itamar Ben-Gvir September 2025
  Sovereignty, and also encouraging [Palestinian] voluntary emigration, which we should do also in Judea and Samaria.
  Israeli broadcast media
  Israeli media, September 2025.
• UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the OPT 16 September 2025
  On incitement to genocide, the Commission concludes that Israeli President Isaac Herzog, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, have incited the commission of genocide and that Israeli authorities have fa…
  OHCHR
  OHCHR press release and report, 16 September 2025.
• Yitzhak Wasserlauf September 2025
  The Land of Israel belongs exclusively to the people of Israel — there is no Palestinian people and no Palestinian state.
  The Times of Israel
  Times of Israel; Arab News, September 2025.
• Moshe Ya'alon February 2026
  Yeshayahu Leibowitz was right, and I was wrong.
  Derived within this record
  Reported February 2026
• Jewish Federations of North America / Burson February 2026
  Approximately one third of American Jews identify as Zionist and 7 per cent as anti-Zionist, rising to 14 per cent among those aged 18–34, while nearly nine in ten support Israel’s existence as a Jewish and democratic state and 71 per cent…
  The Times of IsraelJewish Federations of North AmericaThe Washington PostEntertainment and trade pressDerived within this record
  Jewish Federations of North America / Burson, published February 2026 (Jewish Insider; JTA; Times of Israel); The Washington Post, September 2025. Report §23.5.
• Bezalel Smotrich 5 March 2026
  [Beirut's southern suburb of Dahiyeh will] soon resemble Khan Younis.
  Israeli broadcast mediaLemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention
  Israeli and Lebanese media, 5 March 2026; Lemkin Institute Red Flag Alert, “Israel in Lebanon”, March 2026.
• Israel Katz March 2026
  [The IDF will demolish all homes in Lebanese border villages] in accordance with the Rafah and Beit Hanoun model in Gaza.
  The Times of IsraelEntertainment and trade press
  Times of Israel; Common Dreams; Taipei Times, March–April 2026.
• Itamar Ben-Gvir 30 March 2026
  Today, the State of Israel changes the rules of the game: anyone who murders Jews will no longer breathe freely or enjoy prison privileges. This is a day of justice for the victims and a day of deterrence for our enemies. No more revolving…
  The Times of IsraelThe Jerusalem Post
  The Times of Israel and The Jerusalem Post, 30 March 2026
• Rossing Center for Education and Dialogue (Federica Sasso) 30 March 2026
  Year by year, we're noticing a growing normalization of this behavior in public spaces.
  Rossing Center for Education and Dialogue
  Rossing Center, Annual Report 2025; Jerusalem Story, 5 April 2026
• UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination 29 April 2026
  The law marks a grave human rights retrogression and constitutes racial discrimination and segregation against Palestinians, and must be repealed.
  OHCHR
  OHCHR press release, 1 May 2026 (statement dated 29 April 2026)
• Maj. Gen. Avi Bluth 4 May 2026
  [On why Palestinian stone-throwers are shot dead while Jewish settlers who throw stones at IDF forces are not:] Soldiers' firing on Jews has profound sociological consequences. […] [Asked directly whether this constitutes discrimination:]…
  HaaretzThe Times of Israel
  Haaretz; Times of Israel, 4 May 2026.
• Bezalel Smotrich May 2026
  The time has come to finally erase the lines that separate Areas A, B, and C.
  The Jerusalem PostChatham House
  Jerusalem Post; Chatham House, “Israel's accelerating de facto annexation of the West Bank”, April 2026.
• Benjamin Netanyahu 28 May 2026
  At this point, we are fully in control of 60 percent of the territory of the Gaza Strip… My directive is to move to [70 percent]… Wait, let's go in order. First 70 percent. Let's start with that.
  The Times of IsraelCNNAl JazeeraMiddle East Eye
  Al Jazeera; Times of Israel; CNN; Middle East Eye, 28 May 2026.
• Ehud Olmert 18 June 2026
  The State of Israel is conducting an organized, systematic, state-funded campaign of ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity [in the West Bank]. […] These are unprecedented and harsh accusations against the Israeli government and the…
  Haaretz
  Haaretz, 18 June 2026.
• Itamar Ben-Gvir 19 June 2026
  For every tear of an Israeli mother, a thousand Lebanese mothers must weep. All of Lebanon must burn! […] In the Middle East, you don't win with measured responses and restraint — you need to go berserk. To obliterate. To crush the terror.
  JNSAl JazeeraMiddle East EyeFrance 24 and EuronewsEntertainment and trade press
  Euronews; JNS; Al Jazeera; Middle East Eye; Mediaite; The Daily Caller, 19 June 2026.
• UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the OPT 23 June 2026
  Israeli authorities and security forces have deliberately targeted Palestinian children, amounting to genocide and atrocity crimes in the Gaza Strip and war crimes in the West Bank.
  UN Commission of Inquiry on the OPTUN Human Rights Council
  UN Commission of Inquiry, A/HRC/62/CRP.2, 23 June 2026; press conference, Geneva, the same day.
• Genocide Watch July 2026
  [Gaza is at Stage 8 (Persecution), Stage 9 (Extermination) and Stage 10 (Denial) simultaneously.]
  Genocide Watch
  Genocide Watch report, July 2026.
• Nachala settler movement march — 28 ministers and MKs 19 July 2026
  Returning home after 21 years.
  +972 Magazine and Local CallThe Times of IsraelCNN
  CNN (“Israel's far-right openly boasts of resettling Gaza as election looms”); +972 Magazine; Times of Israel, 19 July 2026.
• Itamar Ben-Gvir 30–31 July 2026
  The assassinations in Gaza must continue, the encouragement of emigration must happen. Israel must win.
  The Times of IsraelJNSMiddle East EyeThe New ArabFrance 24 and Euronews
  Al-Quds; Middle East Eye; France 24; JNS; Times of Israel, 30–31 July 2026.
• Itamar Ben-Gvir c. 16 August 2026
  I think targeted assassinations should be carried out in Gaza, taking down 30 to 40 every night… There are people there who are not worthy of life. They shouldn't live. They're not even people.
  Al JazeeraFrance 24 and EuronewsCBS NewsABC NewsEntertainment and trade press
  Al Jazeera, 16 August 2026; CBS News; Euronews; ABC News; Truthout, 16–17 August 2026.
• Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention 1 September 2026
  [Ben-Gvir's call for the deliberate killing of “30 to 40” Palestinians nightly] must be identified as direct incitement to commit genocide under Article III(c) of the 1948 Genocide Convention.
  Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention
  Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention, 1 September 2026.
• Israel Katz 2 September 2026
  In the end, there is no real solution for Gaza without this migration… [Israel is prepared to achieve it] by sea, by air, and by every way possible… [Trump] has not canceled it; he has frozen it.
  The Times of IsraelAl Jazeera
  Times of Israel; Al Jazeera, 2 September 2026; US Senator Chris Van Hollen: “Now the Israeli Minister of Defense confirmed that's the goal.”
• Itamar Ben-Gvir 3 September 2026
  Instead of illusions of peace now, we need actions of emigration now.
  Al Jazeera
  Al Arabiya; Irish Times; Al Jazeera, 3 September 2026.
• OHCHR 4 September 2026
  [The displacement is] large-scale, long-term and systematic [raising serious concerns of the crime against humanity of forcible transfer.]
  OHCHR
  OHCHR report, 4 September 2026.
• Mike Huckabee 5 September 2026
  Crime is crime, terror is terror. […] [There must be] severe consequences.
  The Times of IsraelEntertainment and trade press
  Times of Israel; wire coverage, 5 September 2026.
• Peter Beinart 9 September 2026
  There's a very legitimate debate about whether you can support a state like that and still have progressive [values].
  Derived within this record
  Zeteo, “Are Democrats Turning Against Israel – or Jews?”, 9 September 2026. Report §21.8.
• Ehud Olmert 10 September 2026
  [Events in the West Bank amount to] no less than attempted ethnic cleansing by a group of murderous criminal terrorists [operating] to harm, steal, destroy, burn and kill Palestinians.
  The Times of IsraelIsraeli broadcast media
  Radio 103FM; Times of Israel, 10 September 2026.
• Yuval Abraham 12 September 2026
  The Israeli intelligence officers we spoke with talked to us about how this mass killing is systemic: not by accident, but by design.
  Al JazeeraEntertainment and trade press
  Venice Film Festival closing ceremony, 12 September 2026; Variety; Deadline; Al Jazeera, 14 September 2026.
• Miki Zohar 13 September 2026
  I will act immediately to revoke the Israeli citizenship of these despicable creators for betraying the state.
  HaaretzAl JazeeraEntertainment and trade press
  Miki Zohar on X, 13 September 2026; Haaretz, 13 September 2026; Al Jazeera, 14 September 2026; The National; AFP.
• ICJ, the Wall 9 July 2004 Appendix A
  International Court of Justice
  International Court of Justice
• ICJ, provisional measures 26 January 2024 Part VI
  International Court of Justice
  International Court of Justice
• ICJ, advisory opinion 19 July 2024 Part XV
  International Court of Justice
  International Court of Justice
• ICC, arrest warrants 21 November 2024 Part XV
  International Criminal Court
  International Criminal Court
• ICC, warrant for Deif 21 November 2024 Appendix A
  International Criminal Court
  International Criminal Court
• ICC, jurisdiction upheld December 2025 Appendix A
  International Criminal Court
  International Criminal Court
• COI, sexual violence March 2025 §6.3
  UN Commission of Inquiry on the OPT
  UN Commission of Inquiry
• COI, cultural destruction June 2025 §6.3
  UN Commission of Inquiry on the OPT
  UN Commission of Inquiry
• COI, genocide 16 September 2025 §15.8
  UN Commission of Inquiry on the OPT
  UN Commission of Inquiry
• COI, children 23 June 2026 §10.7
  UN Commission of Inquiry on the OPT
  UN Commission of Inquiry
• Albanese, Anatomy of a Genocide 2024 §15.8
  UN Special Rapporteurs
  UN Special Rapporteur on the OPT
• Lynk, apartheid 2022 §4.2
  UN Special Rapporteurs
  UN Special Rapporteur on the OPT
• ESCWA, apartheid 2017 §4.2
  UN ESCWA
  UN ESCWA
• Special Committee November 2024 §15.8
  UN Special Committee on Israeli Practices
  UN Special Committee on Israeli Practices
• OHCHR, forcible transfer 4 September 2026 §6.3
  OHCHR
  UN Human Rights Office
• Amnesty, apartheid 2022 §4.2
  Amnesty International
  Amnesty International
• HRW, apartheid 2021 §4.2
  Human Rights Watch
  Human Rights Watch
• B’Tselem, apartheid January 2021 §4.2
  B'Tselem
  B’Tselem
• Amnesty, genocide December 2024 §15.8
  Amnesty International
  Amnesty International
• HRW, extermination December 2024 §15.8
  Human Rights Watch
  Human Rights Watch
• B’Tselem, Our Genocide July 2025 §15.8
  B'Tselem
  B’Tselem
• PHR–Israel July 2025 §15.8
  Physicians for Human Rights Israel
  Physicians for Human Rights–Israel
• IAGS, 86 per cent 1 September 2025 §15.8
  International Association of Genocide Scholars
  International Association of Genocide Scholars
• Yesh Din, apartheid 2020 §4.2
  Yesh Din
  Yesh Din
• The duty to prevent, state by state
  The rows are the G20, the parties to the ICJ case, the states that have restricted arms transfers, and the five states that sanctioned Ben-Gvir and Smotrich in June 2025. Intervening at the ICJ under Article 63 concerns the construction of…
  International Court of Justice
  Compiled from the recognition, sanctions and ICJ records in data/world-positions.json and the embargo and arms-supplier records in data/long-record.json, both of which carry their own sources.
• Aid entering Gaza against the requirement §6.3
  Gaza Ministry of HealthUN OCHAWorld Health OrganizationHuman Rights Watch
  UN OCHA; WHO; Human Rights Watch, 19 May 2026; Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza, May 2026
• Complete siege, then intermittent entry §6.2
  Derived within this record
  Yoav Gallant, 9 October 2023; Israel Katz, 12 October 2023 (the report, §6.2, Appendix C)
• Total blockade §6.3
  0
  IPC Famine Review CommitteeDerived within this record
  The report, §6.3; IPC, 22 August 2025
• Ceasefire: a limited improvement in access §6.3
  J StreetDerived within this record
  The report, §6.3 (J Street / UN data, April 2026)
• Restrictions reimposed Appendix B
  Derived within this record
  The report, Appendix B (February 2026)
• 80 to 120 trucks a day, against 500 required §6.3
  100
  Gaza Ministry of HealthWorld Health OrganizationHuman Rights Watch
  WHO; Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza, May 2026; Human Rights Watch, 19 May 2026
• All crossings closed §6.8
  0
  UN NewsThe Times of IsraelThe New ArabDerived within this record
  The report, §6.8 (Times of Israel; Siasat; The New Arab, 6–8 June 2026; UN News, July 2026)
• Expected aid trucks actually allowed to cross
  35
  Human Rights Watch
  Human Rights Watch, 19 May 2026
• Permitted travellers actually allowed to cross
  36
  Human Rights Watch
  Human Rights Watch, 19 May 2026
• Who is projected to die of hunger §6.3
  UNICEFIPC Famine Review CommitteeSave the Children
  IPC; UNICEF, 2026; Save the Children International, 2026; IPC famine declaration, 22 August 2025
• Gaza's population still facing acute food insecurity
  77
  J Street
  J Street / UN data
• Children projected to face catastrophic hunger in 2026
  80
  Save the Children
  Save the Children International
• Projected to face high acute food insecurity by end 2026
  90
  World Food Programme
  World Food Programme
• Below the emergency minimum of six litres of drinking water a day
  49
  Human Rights Watch
  Human Rights Watch World Report 2026
• Reporting days at a time without eating
  39
  Derived within this record
  Survey data cited at §6.3
• Conduct of the war
  IPC Famine Review Committee
  IPC
• Since the ceasefire §6.7
  Gaza Ministry of HealthWAFA (Palestinian news agency)UN OCHAUNICEFGenocide WatchAl Jazeera
  Gaza Ministry of Health / WAFA, 5 September 2026; UNICEF, June 2026; Genocide Watch / Al Jazeera; OCHA
• Killed since the ceasefire §6.7
  1,344
  Gaza Ministry of HealthWAFA (Palestinian news agency)
  Gaza Ministry of Health / WAFA, 5 September 2026
• Children killed since the ceasefire §6.7
  265
  UNICEF
  UNICEF, June 2026
• Injured since the ceasefire §6.7
  4,464
  Gaza Ministry of HealthWAFA (Palestinian news agency)
  Gaza Ministry of Health / WAFA, 5 September 2026
• Recorded ceasefire violations §6.7
  2,400
  Genocide WatchAl Jazeera
  Genocide Watch / Al Jazeera
• The AI targeting systems §6.4
  +972 Magazine and Local CallThe Guardian
  +972 Magazine and Local Call, April 2024, corroborated by The Guardian; accounts of Israeli intelligence officers
• Human shields: who found what §5.8, §19.5
  Al-HaqAl Mezan Centre for Human RightsPalestinian Centre for Human RightsUN Goldstone Report (2009)UN Secretary-GeneralHigh Court of Justice (Israel)B'TselemBreaking the SilenceHaaretzAmnesty InternationalHuman Rights WatchReutersAssociated PressThe Washington PostCNNCBS News
  HCJ 3799/02 (6 October 2005); UN Secretary-General, Children and Armed Conflict, A/79/878-S/2025/247 (June 2025); UN Goldstone Report (2009); Amnesty International; Human Rights Watch; B'Tselem; Breaking the Silence; Al-Haq, Al Mezan and PCHR (27 June 2025); Haaretz, CNN, AP, CBS News, The Washington Post; Reuters, November 2025
• Conduct of the war
  High Court of Justice (Israel)
  Israel's Supreme Court
• Conduct of the war
  Israel Defense Forces
  IDF Military Police Criminal Investigation Division
• Conduct of the war
  UN Secretary-General
  UN Secretary-General, Children and Armed Conflict
• Conduct of the war
  Amnesty International
  Amnesty International
• Conduct of the war
  Human Rights Watch
  Human Rights Watch
• Conduct of the war
  UN Goldstone Report (2009)
  UN Goldstone Report (2009)
• Conduct of the war
  B'Tselem
  B'Tselem
• Conduct of the war
  Israel Defense ForcesBreaking the Silence
  Breaking the Silence (IDF veterans)
• Conduct of the war
  Al-HaqAl Mezan Centre for Human RightsPalestinian Centre for Human Rights
  Al-Haq, Al Mezan and PCHR
• Conduct of the war
  Reuters
  US intelligence (Reuters)
• Conduct of the war
  HaaretzAssociated PressThe Washington PostCNNCBS News
  Haaretz, CNN, AP, CBS, Washington Post
• What Israeli fire did on 7 October §18.6, §18.1
  Israel Defense ForcesIsraeli Central Bureau of StatisticsHaaretzYnet and Yedioth AhronothIsraeli broadcast media
  Haaretz, 7 July 2024 and 31 May 2024; Channel 12, February 2026; Yediot Ahronot, January 2024; IDF statement, 18 December 2023; Israel's National Insurance Institute
• Conduct of the war
  Revised down from the initial claim of about 1,400.
  Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics
  Israel's National Insurance Institute, December 2023
• The policy of keeping Hamas funded §11.1
  HaaretzThe Times of IsraelThe Jerusalem PostThe Wall Street Journal
  Wall Street Journal, 24 January 2009; Haaretz, March 2019, January 2026 and 4 March 2025; Times of Israel; Jerusalem Post
• What is left Appendix E, §6.3
  Palestinian Centre for Human RightsUN OCHAWorld Health OrganizationUNESCOAl Jazeera
  UN OCHA Humanitarian Situation Reports, 15 and 25 May 2026; WHO; UNESCO; PCHR; Al Jazeera 1,000-day assessment, 2 July 2026
• Hospitals partially functional
  19
  World Health Organization
  WHO
• Primary health care facilities partially functional
  114
  World Health Organization
  WHO
• Children in the military courts §10.2
  Defence for Children International – PalestineUNICEFWorld Organisation Against Torture
  Defence for Children International – Palestine; UNICEF; OMCT
• Sde Teiman alone 2024-07
  36
  B'TselemIsraeli broadcast mediaHuman Rights Watch
  Human Rights Watch, B'Tselem, Israeli press
• All Israeli custody 2025-11
  90
  B'Tselem
  B'Tselem, November 2025
• All Israeli prisons and military detention 2026-09
  98
  Physicians for Human Rights Israel
  Physicians for Human Rights–Israel, September 2026
• Conduct of the war 23 March 2026
  state doctrine
  UN Special Rapporteurs
  Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur
• The nuclear exception §12.1–12.3, §8.5–8.6
  SIPRIFederation of American ScientistsDerived within this record
  SIPRI; Federation of American Scientists; NPT and IAEA status; report §12 and §8
• The coverage, and what it cost §15.9
  Reuters Institute for the Study of JournalismBBCEntertainment and trade press
  Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2026, 16 June 2026, surveying nearly 100,000 people across 48 markets; Novara Media, April 2026; Centre for Media Monitoring; Media Bias Meter, 'Framing Gaza', November 2025; BBC staff open letters, 2024–2025
• Two monitored series, one axis §21.6, §22.1
  Community Security TrustTell MAMAUK Government records
  CST, Antisemitic Incidents Report 2025, 11 February 2026; Tell MAMA 2024 annual report; Home Office hate crime statistics, England and Wales, 2025
• Muslims as a share of religious-hate-crime victims
  44
  UK Government records
  Home Office
• States that have taken a restrictive measure §15.2–15.5
  Derived within this record
  Derived from the embargo tracker in long-record.json and the sanctions measures in world-positions.json, both of which carry the announcement date of each measure
• Palestinians killed since 1948
  136,000
  Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
  Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (Dr Ola Awad), World Refugee Day report, June 2024
• The Nakba and the 1948 war
  Over 750,000 Palestinians were expelled or fled; 530 villages were destroyed and 11 towns and cities depopulated. The death toll is the least well established part of the 1948 record, because the population that would have counted it was t…
  Palestinian Central Bureau of StatisticsBenny Morris and the Israeli New Historians
  Aref al-Aref, al-Nakba (13,000); PCBS (15,000); Benny Morris, The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited (5,700–5,800); Stanley Sandler (6,373, of whom 2,373 civilians)
• Military government over Palestinian citizens of Israel
  The hard figure of 435 is the sum of three documented massacres: Kafr Qasim, 29 October 1956, 49 Palestinian citizens of Israel shot at a curfew line, 23 of them children; Khan Yunis, November 1956, 275 killed during the Israeli occupation…
  UNRWAUN General AssemblyIsrael Defense ForcesHigh Court of Justice (Israel)
  Kafr Qasim: Israeli military court record, 1957. Khan Yunis and Rafah: UNRWA Director's report to the UN General Assembly, 1957. Border confrontations: standard compilation of Arab–Israeli casualties, 1949–1956
• The Six-Day War and the Naksa
  The displacement is documented: roughly 300,000 Palestinians driven from the West Bank and Gaza, of whom over 100,000 were already refugees from 1948, with estimates ranging from 280,000 to 325,000, plus 100,000 Syrians from the Golan. The…
  BADIL Resource CenterUN Secretary-General
  Displacement: report of the UN Secretary-General, 1967. Military casualties: standard campaign histories. Civilian killings: BADIL; Segev, 1967; Masalha
• The occupation before the First Intifada
  The longest hole in the record, and not an accident of archiving: it covers the two decades in which the settlement enterprise was built. It also contains events Israel's own institutions have adjudicated — the Kahan Commission found Defen…
  Palquest / Institute for Palestine StudiesUN Commission of Inquiry on the OPTHigh Court of Justice (Israel)MERIPEntertainment and trade press
  MERIP, Israel and the Palestinians 1948–1988; IMEU; palquest; Kahan Commission of Inquiry, 1983; Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout, Sabra and Shatila: September 1982
• The First Intifada
  1,087 killed by the Israeli army, 107 killed by Israeli civilians in the occupied territories (94 in the West Bank, 13 in Gaza), and 28 killed inside Israel. 240 were minors. In the first thirteen months alone, 332 Palestinians were killed…
  B'Tselem
  B'Tselem, fatality database for 9 December 1987 – 13 September 1993
• The Oslo years
  The years in which the settler population of the West Bank roughly doubled while the peace process was under way. Over the same period nearly 300 Israelis were killed in attacks. The Ibrahimi Mosque massacre of 25 February 1994, in which t…
  B'TselemDerived within this record
  Derived from B'Tselem cumulative figures
• The Second Intifada and the decade after it
  6,371 Palestinians killed by Israeli security forces. 1,317 were minors. At least 2,996 were not participating in hostilities when they were killed, against 2,193 who were, with 694 unclassified — so of the cases where status could be esta…
  B'Tselem
  B'Tselem, ten-year fatality report
• OCHA's monitoring period
  Excluded from the running total because 2008, 2009 and 2010 are already inside B'Tselem's decade above — this is an independent series over an overlapping period, not an additional one. 115,000 Palestinians were injured over the same thirt…
  UN OCHA
  UN OCHA, occupied Palestinian territory database
• Gaza and the West Bank since 7 October 2023
  73,670 killed in Gaza and 1,114 in the West Bank. Peer-reviewed work puts the real figure far higher: The Lancet's capture–recapture study found a 41% undercount of traumatic-injury deaths to 30 June 2024, and the Gaza Mortality Survey fou…
  Gaza Ministry of HealthUN OCHATech For Palestine open datasets
  Gaza Ministry of Health and OCHA, compiled by Tech For Palestine
• First Intifada, first 13 months
  The opening period of the intifada, before either side's tactics had changed.
  B'Tselem
  B'Tselem
• Second Intifada
  Roughly 950 of the Palestinian dead were children. This is the narrowest ratio in the whole record — the period of the suicide bombings, and the one most often cited as representative of the conflict as a whole.
  Defence for Children International – PalestineDerived within this record
  Defence for Children International; report §5.4
• B'Tselem's decade
  The Israeli figure is 741 civilians, including 124 minors, and 342 security personnel. The Palestinian figure includes 1,317 minors. Both sides counted by the same Israeli organisation, on the same methodology, in the same report.
  B'Tselem
  B'Tselem, ten-year fatality report
• OCHA's monitoring period
  Injuries over the same period: 115,000 Palestinians against 5,600 Israelis. The injury ratio is 20.5 to 1 — almost exactly the same as the fatality ratio, which is what you would expect if the difference is firepower rather than intent to…
  UN OCHA
  UN OCHA
• Since 7 October 2023
  The Israeli figure is built to avoid double counting: 1,139 Israelis and foreign nationals killed on 7 October 2023 (National Insurance Institute, December 2023 — 695 civilians, 283 IDF, 71 foreign nationals, 57 police, 10 Shin Bet), plus…
  Gaza Ministry of HealthUN OCHAIsraeli Ministry of DefenseIsraeli Central Bureau of Statistics
  Gaza MoH / OCHA; Israel's National Insurance Institute; Israeli Ministry of Defense
• Children, before the war
  The pre-October-2023 baseline for children killed, from the Israeli organisation that counted both.
  B'Tselem
  B'Tselem, cumulative to 2023
• The accountability gap
  Yesh Din
  Yesh Din — Volunteers for Human Rights, data sheets on the Military Advocate General's handling of complaints
• Chance of prosecution for killing a Palestinian
  0.4
  Yesh Din
  Yesh Din
• Expelled or fled, 1948
  750,000
  Derived within this record
  UN; report §2.3
• Displaced, 1967
  300,000
  UN Secretary-General
  UN Secretary-General, 1967
• Internally displaced under occupation
  160,000
  BADIL Resource CenterIsraeli Committee Against House Demolitions
  BADIL; ICAHD
• Displaced in Gaza
  1,900,000
  UN OCHAUNRWA
  UNRWA / OCHA
• Registered refugees today
  6,000,000
  UNRWA
  UNRWA
• Homes demolished in the Nakba
  52,000
  Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions
  ICAHD
• Structures demolished in the occupied territory since 1967
  55,000
  Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions
  ICAHD, February 2019
• Homes demolished in East Jerusalem since 1967
  5,000
  Land Research Center
  Land Research Center, March 2018
• Palestinians detained under Israeli military orders since 1967
  800,000
  Addameer
  Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association
• 2002–03
  1,000
  Addameer
  Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, statistics on administrative detention
• 2005–07
  765
  Addameer
  Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, statistics on administrative detention
• Dec 2018
  482
  Addameer
  Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, statistics on administrative detention
• Sep 2023
  1,320
  Addameer
  Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, statistics on administrative detention
• Oct 2025
  3,198
  Addameer
  Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, statistics on administrative detention
• Where the weapons come from
  SIPRI measures deliveries of major conventional weapons, not components, spare parts or ammunition. The F-35 programme in particular is supplied through a global parts pool to which several states contribute without any bilateral licence a…
  SIPRI
  Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Arms Transfers Database, March 2025
• Cumulative bilateral aid, 1946 to February 2022
  150
  US Congress and the Congressional Research Service
  Congressional Research Service, RL33222, February 2022
• Cumulative bilateral aid, to March 2023
  158.7
  US Congress and the Congressional Research Service
  Congressional Research Service, RL33222, March 2023
• Cumulative bilateral aid, latest published
  174
  US Congress and the Congressional Research Service
  Congressional Research Service, RL33222, current edition
• The same aid adjusted for inflation, 1959–2024
  317.9
  Brown University Costs of War
  Costs of War Project, Brown University, October 2024
• Foreign Military Financing, annual
  3.3
  US Congress and the Congressional Research Service
  Congressional Research Service, U.S. Foreign Aid to Israel (RL33222)
• Missile defence, annual
  0.5
  US Congress and the Congressional Research Service
  Congressional Research Service, U.S. Foreign Aid to Israel (RL33222)
• Emergency supplemental, FY2024
  14.1
  US Congress and the Congressional Research Service
  Public Law 118-50, April 2024
• Military aid in the first year of the Gaza war
  17.9
  Brown University Costs of War
  Costs of War Project, Brown University, October 2024
• The long record
  Listing is not an accusation of a crime. It records that the entity carries on one of ten activities the Human Rights Council identified as raising particular human rights concerns in the settlements — supply of equipment for demolition, s…
  UN Human Rights Council
  Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, database pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 31/36
• United States vetoes of draft resolutions on Israel and Palestine
  49
  UN Security CouncilUN Dag Hammarskjöld Library
  United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld Library, Security Council Veto List
• Share of all United States vetoes ever cast
  55
  UN Security CouncilUN Dag Hammarskjöld Library
  United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld Library, Security Council Veto List
• Vetoes since 7 October 2023
  7
  UN Security CouncilUN Dag Hammarskjöld Library
  United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld Library, Security Council Veto List
• Recognition §15.4
  Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs list of recognitions and the UN documents underlying each entry, compiled as at 12 September 2026. The same list drives the recognition map in data/world-positions.json, so the counts here and there are one figure, not two.
• 1946
  The Survey of Palestine prepared for the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry recorded Jewish landholding at roughly 6 to 7 per cent of the total land area of Mandatory Palestine. Jews were about one third of the population.
  Declassified state archives
  Survey of Palestine, prepared for the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry, 1946
• Jewish-owned land
  6
  Declassified state archives
  Survey of Palestine, prepared for the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry, 1946
• Palestinian and state land
  94
  Declassified state archives
  Survey of Palestine, prepared for the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry, 1946
• 1947
  General Assembly Resolution 181 allotted about 56 per cent of the territory to a Jewish state whose population was about a third of the whole and which owned about 6 per cent of the land.
  UN General Assembly
  United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181 (II), 29 November 1947
• Allotted to the Jewish state
  56
  UN General Assembly
  United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181 (II), 29 November 1947
• Allotted to the Arab state
  43
  UN General Assembly
  United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181 (II), 29 November 1947
• Jerusalem, international
  1
  UN General Assembly
  United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181 (II), 29 November 1947
• 1949
  Israel held about 78 per cent — some 22 per cent more than the partition plan had allotted — and more than 700,000 Palestinians had been displaced from it.
  UN Conciliation Commission for PalestineDeclassified state archives
  1949 Armistice Agreements; United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine
• Israel
  78
  UN Conciliation Commission for PalestineDeclassified state archives
  1949 Armistice Agreements; United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine
• West Bank, under Jordan
  21
  UN Conciliation Commission for PalestineDeclassified state archives
  1949 Armistice Agreements; United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine
• Gaza, under Egypt
  1
  UN Conciliation Commission for PalestineDeclassified state archives
  1949 Armistice Agreements; United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine
• 1967
  The remaining 22 per cent came under military occupation, where it has remained for fifty-nine years. East Jerusalem was annexed in 1980 and the Golan in 1981; both annexations were declared null and void by the Security Council.
  UN Security Council
  United Nations Security Council Resolution 242 (1967)
• Under Israeli control
  100
  UN Security Council
  United Nations Security Council Resolution 242 (1967)
• Today
  The Oslo II Interim Agreement of September 1995 divided the West Bank into Areas A, B and C as a five-year arrangement pending final status talks. Thirty-one years later the division stands.
  UN OCHAB'Tselem
  Oslo II Interim Agreement, September 1995; B'Tselem; United Nations OCHA
• Israel, pre-1967 lines
  78
  UN OCHAB'Tselem
  Oslo II Interim Agreement, September 1995; B'Tselem; United Nations OCHA
• Area C, full Israeli control
  12.6
  UN OCHAB'Tselem
  Oslo II Interim Agreement, September 1995; B'Tselem; United Nations OCHA
• Area B, Israeli security control
  4.6
  UN OCHAB'Tselem
  Oslo II Interim Agreement, September 1995; B'Tselem; United Nations OCHA
• Area A, Palestinian control
  3.8
  UN OCHAB'Tselem
  Oslo II Interim Agreement, September 1995; B'Tselem; United Nations OCHA
• Gaza
  1
  UN OCHAB'Tselem
  Oslo II Interim Agreement, September 1995; B'Tselem; United Nations OCHA
• Area A
  18
  UN OCHAB'Tselem
  B'Tselem; United Nations OCHA, Area C figures
• Area B
  22
  UN OCHAB'Tselem
  B'Tselem; United Nations OCHA, Area C figures
• Area C
  60
  UN OCHAB'Tselem
  B'Tselem; United Nations OCHA, Area C figures
• Settlement built-up area, share of the West Bank
  2
  B'Tselem
  B'Tselem, settlement statistics
• Land under settlement regional council jurisdiction
  40
  B'Tselem
  B'Tselem, settlement statistics
• Land declared Israeli state land in 2024
  23.7
  Peace Now
  Peace Now
• German arms export licences to Israel, by year §13.4
  German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy
  German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, answer to a parliamentary inquiry by the Left Party, September 2026; reported by Der Spiegel via Anadolu Agency, and Globes
• United States arms to Israel since 7 October 2023 §13.2
  Brown University Costs of WarQuincy InstituteUS Congress and the Congressional Research Service
  Quincy Institute and Brown University Costs of War; US Congress via the Library of Congress; Defense Security Cooperation Agency notifications
• Enacted by US legislation since 7 October 2023
  16.3
  US Congress and the Congressional Research Service
  US Congress, Library of Congress
• All military aid, October 2023 to September 2025, including transfers, foreign military sales and emergency authority
  21.7
  Brown University Costs of War
  Brown University Costs of War, through September 2025
• What the United Kingdom suspended, and what it left in force §13.3, §15.2
  High Court of Justice (Israel)UK Government recordsDeclassified state archivesEntertainment and trade press
  UK export-licensing records; High Court of Justice; gov.uk; Declassified UK and Novara Media flight-tracking
• Lebanon §5.2, §7.1–7.2, §8.6
  High Court of Justice (Israel)
  Lebanese Ministry of Public Health; Lebanese government casualty figures; Kahan Commission; UN investigations
• Beyond Gaza §8.1–8.6
  UN Security Council
  UN Security Council records; report Part VIII
• The first Intifada and the Oslo years
  B’Tselem counted both sides on one methodology and published the table year by year. Its cut-off is under 17, not under 18, so the Palestinian figure is a floor. Palestinian minors killed inside Israel in this period are not broken out by…
  B'Tselem
  B'Tselem, Fatalities in the first Intifada (9 December 1987 – 28 September 2000).
• The second Intifada years
  Remember These Children names every child on both sides, under 18. Its own stated header totals for 2000–2014 are 131 Israeli and 1,587 Palestinian, while its year blocks sum to 131 and 1,653 — a discrepancy of 66 in the source itself, whi…
  Remember These Children
  Remember These Children, 2000–2014 compilation (American Educational Trust / Washington Report on Middle East Affairs), last updated 22 July 2014.
• The war
  The Palestinian figure is Gaza plus the West Bank from the same daily series the rest of this site plots. The Israeli figure is the children killed on 7 October 2023. B’Tselem does not publish a separate count of Israeli children killed af…
  Gaza Ministry of HealthUN OCHATech For Palestine open datasets
  Gaza Ministry of Health and OCHA, via the Tech For Palestine open datasets; the same series this site plots on the Gaza and West Bank pages.
• The Nakba and the years after it
  Around 15,000 Palestinians were killed in 1947–49 and 456 towns and villages were emptied, 49 of them with a recorded massacre. Children are named one by one in the survivor testimony from Deir Yassin, al-Dawayima, Tantura and the rest, bu…
  no source recorded
  No published source disaggregates children for this period.
• From the occupation to the first Intifada
  B’Tselem was founded in 1989 and its own tables begin on 9 December 1987; the Palestinian and international documentation of the two decades before that was not kept in a form that yields an annual count of children. The period is left emp…
  no source recorded
  No published source covers this period systematically.
• The first Intifada and the Oslo years
  B’Tselem counted both sides on one methodology and published the table year by year. Its cut-off is under 17, not under 18, so the Palestinian figure is a floor. Palestinian minors killed inside Israel in this period are not broken out by…
  B'Tselem
  B'Tselem, Fatalities in the first Intifada (9 December 1987 – 28 September 2000).
• The second Intifada years
  Remember These Children names every child on both sides, under 18. Its own stated header totals for 2000–2014 are 131 Israeli and 1,587 Palestinian, while its year blocks sum to 131 and 1,653 — a discrepancy of 66 in the source itself, whi…
  Remember These Children
  Remember These Children, 2000–2014 compilation (American Educational Trust / Washington Report on Middle East Affairs), last updated 22 July 2014.
• The years between
  No single source counted both sides across this decade on one methodology, so no total is stated for it. What is published: OCHA recorded 551 Palestinian children killed in 2014 alone; B’Tselem recorded 1,317 Palestinian minors killed by I…
  Defence for Children International – PalestineUN OCHAB'Tselem
  Defence for Children International – Palestine; OCHA; B’Tselem.
• The war
  The Palestinian figure is Gaza plus the West Bank from the same daily series the rest of this site plots. The Israeli figure is the children killed on 7 October 2023. B’Tselem does not publish a separate count of Israeli children killed af…
  Gaza Ministry of HealthUN OCHATech For Palestine open datasets
  Gaza Ministry of Health and OCHA, via the Tech For Palestine open datasets; the same series this site plots on the Gaza and West Bank pages.
• from 9 December 1987
  5 killed by Israeli security forces and 0 by Israeli civilians in the Occupied Territories; 0 Israeli minors killed by Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and 0 inside Israel.
  B'Tselem
  B'Tselem, Fatalities in the first Intifada (9 December 1987 – 28 September 2000).
• 1988
  48 killed by Israeli security forces and 2 by Israeli civilians in the Occupied Territories; 3 Israeli minors killed by Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and 0 inside Israel.
  B'Tselem
  B'Tselem, Fatalities in the first Intifada (9 December 1987 – 28 September 2000).
• 1989
  78 killed by Israeli security forces and 5 by Israeli civilians in the Occupied Territories; 0 Israeli minors killed by Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and 1 inside Israel.
  B'Tselem
  B'Tselem, Fatalities in the first Intifada (9 December 1987 – 28 September 2000).
• 1990
  23 killed by Israeli security forces and 2 by Israeli civilians in the Occupied Territories; 0 Israeli minors killed by Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and 0 inside Israel.
  B'Tselem
  B'Tselem, Fatalities in the first Intifada (9 December 1987 – 28 September 2000).
• 1991
  24 killed by Israeli security forces and 3 by Israeli civilians in the Occupied Territories; 0 Israeli minors killed by Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and 0 inside Israel.
  B'Tselem
  B'Tselem, Fatalities in the first Intifada (9 December 1987 – 28 September 2000).
• 1992
  23 killed by Israeli security forces and 0 by Israeli civilians in the Occupied Territories; 0 Israeli minors killed by Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and 1 inside Israel.
  B'Tselem
  B'Tselem, Fatalities in the first Intifada (9 December 1987 – 28 September 2000).
• 1993
  40 killed by Israeli security forces and 1 by Israeli civilians in the Occupied Territories; 0 Israeli minors killed by Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and 0 inside Israel.
  B'Tselem
  B'Tselem, Fatalities in the first Intifada (9 December 1987 – 28 September 2000).
• 1994
  16 killed by Israeli security forces and 8 by Israeli civilians in the Occupied Territories; 0 Israeli minors killed by Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and 2 inside Israel.
  B'Tselem
  B'Tselem, Fatalities in the first Intifada (9 December 1987 – 28 September 2000).
• 1995
  4 killed by Israeli security forces and 1 by Israeli civilians in the Occupied Territories; 0 Israeli minors killed by Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and 0 inside Israel.
  B'Tselem
  B'Tselem, Fatalities in the first Intifada (9 December 1987 – 28 September 2000).
• 1996
  10 killed by Israeli security forces and 1 by Israeli civilians in the Occupied Territories; 1 Israeli minors killed by Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and 7 inside Israel.
  B'Tselem
  B'Tselem, Fatalities in the first Intifada (9 December 1987 – 28 September 2000).
• 1997
  5 killed by Israeli security forces and 0 by Israeli civilians in the Occupied Territories; 0 Israeli minors killed by Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and 3 inside Israel.
  B'Tselem
  B'Tselem, Fatalities in the first Intifada (9 December 1987 – 28 September 2000).
• 1998
  3 killed by Israeli security forces and 0 by Israeli civilians in the Occupied Territories; 0 Israeli minors killed by Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and 0 inside Israel.
  B'Tselem
  B'Tselem, Fatalities in the first Intifada (9 December 1987 – 28 September 2000).
• 1999
  0 killed by Israeli security forces and 0 by Israeli civilians in the Occupied Territories; 0 Israeli minors killed by Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and 0 inside Israel.
  B'Tselem
  B'Tselem, Fatalities in the first Intifada (9 December 1987 – 28 September 2000).
• to 28 September 2000
  2 killed by Israeli security forces and 0 by Israeli civilians in the Occupied Territories; 0 Israeli minors killed by Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and 0 inside Israel.
  B'Tselem
  B'Tselem, Fatalities in the first Intifada (9 December 1987 – 28 September 2000).
• from 29 September 2000
  Named children under 18, compiled one death at a time from both sides.
  Remember These Children
  Remember These Children, 2000–2014 compilation (American Educational Trust / Washington Report on Middle East Affairs), last updated 22 July 2014.
• 2001
  Named children under 18, compiled one death at a time from both sides.
  Remember These Children
  Remember These Children, 2000–2014 compilation (American Educational Trust / Washington Report on Middle East Affairs), last updated 22 July 2014.
• 2002
  Named children under 18, compiled one death at a time from both sides.
  Remember These Children
  Remember These Children, 2000–2014 compilation (American Educational Trust / Washington Report on Middle East Affairs), last updated 22 July 2014.
• 2003
  Named children under 18, compiled one death at a time from both sides.
  Remember These Children
  Remember These Children, 2000–2014 compilation (American Educational Trust / Washington Report on Middle East Affairs), last updated 22 July 2014.
• 2004
  Named children under 18, compiled one death at a time from both sides.
  Remember These Children
  Remember These Children, 2000–2014 compilation (American Educational Trust / Washington Report on Middle East Affairs), last updated 22 July 2014.
• 2005
  Named children under 18, compiled one death at a time from both sides.
  Remember These Children
  Remember These Children, 2000–2014 compilation (American Educational Trust / Washington Report on Middle East Affairs), last updated 22 July 2014.
• 2006
  Named children under 18, compiled one death at a time from both sides.
  Remember These Children
  Remember These Children, 2000–2014 compilation (American Educational Trust / Washington Report on Middle East Affairs), last updated 22 July 2014.
• 2007
  Named children under 18, compiled one death at a time from both sides.
  Remember These Children
  Remember These Children, 2000–2014 compilation (American Educational Trust / Washington Report on Middle East Affairs), last updated 22 July 2014.
• 2008
  Named children under 18, compiled one death at a time from both sides.
  Remember These Children
  Remember These Children, 2000–2014 compilation (American Educational Trust / Washington Report on Middle East Affairs), last updated 22 July 2014.
• 2009
  Named children under 18, compiled one death at a time from both sides.
  Remember These Children
  Remember These Children, 2000–2014 compilation (American Educational Trust / Washington Report on Middle East Affairs), last updated 22 July 2014.
• 2010
  Named children under 18, compiled one death at a time from both sides.
  Remember These Children
  Remember These Children, 2000–2014 compilation (American Educational Trust / Washington Report on Middle East Affairs), last updated 22 July 2014.
• 2011
  Named children under 18, compiled one death at a time from both sides.
  Remember These Children
  Remember These Children, 2000–2014 compilation (American Educational Trust / Washington Report on Middle East Affairs), last updated 22 July 2014.
• 2012
  Named children under 18, compiled one death at a time from both sides.
  Remember These Children
  Remember These Children, 2000–2014 compilation (American Educational Trust / Washington Report on Middle East Affairs), last updated 22 July 2014.
• 2013
  The compilation carries no 2013 block at all: it runs 2012, then 2014. Nothing is substituted for it here.
  Remember These Children
  Remember These Children, 2000–2014 compilation (American Educational Trust / Washington Report on Middle East Affairs), last updated 22 July 2014.
• 2014
  OCHA recorded 551 Palestinian children killed in 2014, the great majority during the fifty days of Operation Protective Edge, of whom Defence for Children International – Palestine independently verified 547 in Gaza. The Remember These Chi…
  Defence for Children International – PalestineUN OCHA
  OCHA; Defence for Children International – Palestine.
• 2016
  Defence for Children International – Palestine recorded 32 Palestinian children killed in the occupied West Bank including East Jerusalem, the highest in a decade at that point. Gaza is not included in that figure.
  Defence for Children International – Palestine
  Defence for Children International – Palestine.
• 2018
  Defence for Children International – Palestine recorded 56 Palestinian children killed across the occupied territory, 45 of them in Gaza from 30 March during the Great March of Return.
  Defence for Children International – Palestine
  Defence for Children International – Palestine.
• 2021
  Defence for Children International – Palestine recorded 86 Palestinian children killed, the deadliest year for Palestinian children since 2014.
  Defence for Children International – Palestine
  Defence for Children International – Palestine.
• 2022
  Defence for Children International – Palestine recorded 78 Palestinian children killed across the occupied territory. OCHA, counting only the West Bank and only on its own verification standard, recorded 36 — the figure this site carries i…
  Defence for Children International – PalestineUN OCHA
  Defence for Children International – Palestine; OCHA.
• from 7 October 2023
  Gaza 9100 and the West Bank 79, both from 7 October. OCHA separately recorded 42 Palestinian children killed in the West Bank between 1 January and 6 October 2023, before the war; adding those gives 121 for the West Bank in 2023, which is…
  Gaza Ministry of HealthUN OCHATech For Palestine open datasets
  Gaza Ministry of Health and OCHA, via the Tech For Palestine open datasets; the same series this site plots on the Gaza and West Bank pages.
• 2024
  Gaza 8718 and the West Bank 88.
  Gaza Ministry of HealthUN OCHATech For Palestine open datasets
  Gaza Ministry of Health and OCHA, via the Tech For Palestine open datasets; the same series this site plots on the Gaza and West Bank pages.
• 2025
  Gaza 2361 and the West Bank 49.
  Gaza Ministry of HealthUN OCHATech For Palestine open datasets
  Gaza Ministry of Health and OCHA, via the Tech For Palestine open datasets; the same series this site plots on the Gaza and West Bank pages.
• to 10 September 2026
  Gaza 0 and the West Bank 22, to the last daily report received.
  Gaza Ministry of HealthUN OCHATech For Palestine open datasets
  Gaza Ministry of Health and OCHA, via the Tech For Palestine open datasets; the same series this site plots on the Gaza and West Bank pages.
• 1947–1966
  no source recorded
  —
• 1967–1987
  no source recorded
  —
• 2013
  Remember These Children
  Remember These Children.
• 2015, 2017, 2019, 2020
  Defence for Children International – Palestine
  Defence for Children International – Palestine.
• Israeli children, 2013 – 6 October 2023
  B'Tselem
  B’Tselem.
• Israeli children after 7 October 2023
  B'Tselem
  B’Tselem.
• Children on the named list of the dead, by age
  One bar for each year of age from 0 to 17, from the 72,835 named records the Gaza Ministry of Health publishes with a date of birth. There is no age at which the count falls away.
  Gaza Ministry of HealthTech For Palestine open datasets
  Gaza Ministry of Health named list, via the Tech For Palestine open datasets.
• Children injured
  44,143
  UN Commission of Inquiry on the OPT
  UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry, report on the targeting of children, 23 June 2026.
• Children left with a permanent disability
  21,000
  UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with DisabilitiesSave the Children
  UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, cited by Save the Children, 6 September 2025.
• Children killed before their first birthday
  1,009
  Save the Children
  Save the Children, 6 September 2025.
• Children who starved to death
  157
  Gaza Ministry of HealthTech For Palestine open datasets
  Gaza Ministry of Health, via the Tech For Palestine open datasets.
• Under-fives at risk of death from acute malnutrition
  132,000
  UNICEFIPC Famine Review CommitteeSave the Children
  IPC and UNICEF, cited by Save the Children, 6 September 2025.
• Share of Gaza’s schools damaged or destroyed
  97
  Save the Children
  Save the Children, 6 September 2025.
• Children on the named list of the dead
  21,637
  Gaza Ministry of HealthTech For Palestine open datasets
  Gaza Ministry of Health named list, via the Tech For Palestine open datasets.
• The baseline
  Of these, 152 (including 35 children) were killed by Israeli forces. The deadliest year in the West Bank since OCHA began systematically recording casualties in 2005. B'Tselem, counting on its own methodology, recorded 146 killed by Israel…
  UN OCHA
  OCHA
• The baseline
  More than triple the 2022 figure and the deadliest year on record. 208 of those deaths, including 42 children, occurred between 1 January and 6 October — before the war began. The UN also recorded 36 Israeli fatalities in attacks by Palest…
  UN OCHA
  OCHA
• The baseline
  The second full year of the escalation, at almost exactly the 2023 rate, with the world's attention on Gaza.
  UN OCHATech For Palestine open datasets
  Tech For Palestine / OCHA
• The baseline
  Includes Operation Iron Wall in the northern camps, which displaced more than 33,000 people from Jenin, Nur Shams and Tulkarem.
  UN OCHATech For Palestine open datasets
  Tech For Palestine / OCHA
• The baseline
  To 10 September 2026. OCHA recorded at least 15 Palestinians killed by settlers by 24 July 2026, putting the year on course to pass the previous record of 16 settler killings set in 2023.
  UN OCHATech For Palestine open datasets
  Tech For Palestine / OCHA
• The West Bank in 2023, before and after 7 October
  UN OCHA
  OCHA, Data on Casualties and West Bank Snapshot, December 2023
• The baseline
  UN OCHA
  OCHA
• The baseline
  UN OCHA
  OCHA
• The baseline
  Average over the first eight months of 2023 — the highest daily average since the UN began recording this data in 2006, before the war began.
  UN OCHA
  OCHA
• The baseline
  The post-7-October rate. Harassment, trespass and intimidation are excluded from OCHA's count, so this understates the pressure.
  UN OCHA
  OCHA
• Ministry of Health, recorded
  37,877
  Gaza Ministry of Health
  Gaza Ministry of Health
• Lancet capture–recapture
  64,260
  The Lancet and Lancet Global HealthLondon School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
  The Lancet, 10 January 2025 (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Yale and others)
• Ministry of Health, recorded
  49,090
  Gaza Ministry of Health
  Gaza Ministry of Health
• Gaza Mortality Survey
  75,200
  The Lancet and Lancet Global Health
  The Lancet Global Health, February 2026
• MPIDR demographic reconstruction
  78,318
  Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
  Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, November 2025
• Estimated dead under the rubble
  9,000
  Gaza Civil Defence
  Gaza Civil Defence and Ministry of Health estimates
• Bodies recovered since the ceasefire
  827
  Gaza Civil Defence
  Gaza Civil Defence, 2025–2026
• Children of unknown fate
  2,900
  UNICEF
  UNICEF and Ministry of Health
• Missing, per the mortality survey
  12,200
  The Lancet and Lancet Global Health
  Gaza Mortality Survey, The Lancet Global Health, 2026
• Gaza, by governorate, on the IPC scale
  IPC Famine Review Committee
  IPC Famine Review Committee and IPC Global Initiative, Gaza Strip analyses of 22 August 2025, 19 December 2025 and 2026
• The West Bank, by governorate
  UN OCHAAl Jazeera
  OCHA, via Al Jazeera, "Mapping Israeli settler violence in the West Bank", 27 July 2026
• Operation Iron Wall: the three camps
  Share of structures destroyed or damaged by October 2025. Displaced Palestinians told OHCHR that Israeli officers said there would be "no more refugee camps" and that they should "all go to Jordan".
  OHCHR
  OHCHR, 4 September 2026
• Determinations 26 Jan 2024 Part VI
  South Africa v Israel. Provisional measures ordered under Article 41 of the Statute, strengthened on 28 March and 24 May 2024. The plausibility threshold is low by design — it is the trigger for every state party's duty to prevent, not a m…
  International Court of Justice
  International Court of Justice
• Determinations 19 Jul 2024 Part XV
  Advisory opinion, adopted 14 votes to 1. Israel is obliged to end its unlawful presence as rapidly as possible, cease all settlement activity, evacuate all settlers and make reparation; all UN member states are under a duty not to recognis…
  International Court of Justice
  International Court of Justice
• Determinations 21 Nov 2024 Part XV
  Pre-Trial Chamber I found reasonable grounds to believe both bear criminal responsibility for starvation as a method of warfare and for crimes against humanity. Warrants were also issued in respect of Hamas commanders.
  International Criminal Court
  International Criminal Court
• Determinations Nov 2024 §15.8
  The standing UN committee established in 1968 to monitor Israeli practices affecting the human rights of the Palestinian people.
  UN Special Committee on Israeli Practices
  UN Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices
• Determinations 2024 §15.8
  Report to the Human Rights Council finding reasonable grounds to believe the threshold for genocide had been met.
  UN Special Rapporteurs
  UN Special Rapporteur on the OPT (Francesca Albanese)
• Determinations 16 Sep 2025 §15.8
  Chaired by Navi Pillay, on full evidentiary review under the Genocide Convention. The Commission also found that President Herzog, Prime Minister Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Gallant committed direct and public incitement to genoc…
  UN Commission of Inquiry on the OPT
  UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the OPT
• Determinations 23 Jun 2026 §10.7
  The reconstituted Commission, chaired by Srinivasan Muralidhar, found the deliberate targeting and killing of Palestinian children to be a genocidal act evidencing intent “to destroy the larger Palestinian group in Gaza”.
  UN Commission of Inquiry on the OPT
  UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the OPT
• Determinations 1 Sep 2025 §15.8
  The foremost academic body in the field, whose members have studied the Holocaust, Rwanda, Cambodia and Bosnia. Carried by 86% of members voting. No comparable body of genocide scholars has reached a contrary conclusion.
  International Association of Genocide Scholars
  International Association of Genocide Scholars
• Determinations Jul 2026 §15.8
  Persecution, Extermination and Denial at once, on the Ten Stages framework Stanton originated.
  Genocide Watch
  Genocide Watch (Gregory Stanton)
• Determinations ongoing §15.8
  Named for Raphael Lemkin, who coined the term. Also issued a Red Flag Alert on Israel in Lebanon, March 2026.
  Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention
  Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention
• Determinations Dec 2024 §15.8
  “You Feel Like You Are Subhuman” — a full evidentiary report applying the Convention.
  Amnesty International
  Amnesty International
• Determinations Dec 2024 §15.8
  Found the deliberate deprivation of water to constitute an act of genocide, and the wider conduct to constitute extermination as a crime against humanity.
  Human Rights Watch
  Human Rights Watch
• Determinations Jul 2025 §15.8
  The leading Israeli human-rights organisation, naming its own state's conduct. An admission against interest in the strict evidentiary sense.
  B'Tselem
  B'Tselem
• Determinations Jul 2025 §15.8
  An Israeli medical body, reporting on the systematic destruction of the health system.
  Physicians for Human Rights Israel
  Physicians for Human Rights–Israel
• Determinations — §15.8
  A federation of 188 national human-rights organisations.
  International Federation for Human Rights
  International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH)
• Determinations — §15.8
  Field documentation from inside Gaza throughout the war.
  Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor
  Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor
• Determinations — §15.8
  Litigation-focused; has brought arms-export cases in European jurisdictions.
  European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights
  European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights
• Determinations — §15.8
  The oldest Palestinian human-rights organisation, founded 1979; designated a terrorist organisation by Israel in 2021, a designation European states examined and declined to accept.
  Al-Haq
  Al-Haq
• Determinations — §15.8
  Gaza-based, documenting from within the territory under bombardment.
  Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights
  Al Mezan Center for Human Rights
• Determinations — §15.8
  Gaza-based; its casualty documentation is among the sources used to corroborate Ministry of Health figures.
  Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
  Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
• Determinations — §15.8
  Child-specific documentation, including of military detention and of children killed.
  Defence for Children International – Palestine
  Defence for Children International–Palestine
• Determinations — §6.1
  A medical organisation with staff inside Gaza for the duration; several of its own staff were killed.
  Médecins Sans Frontières
  Médecins Sans Frontières
• Determinations — §15.8
  Representing some 350 member churches across more than 110 countries.
  World Council of Churches
  World Council of Churches
• Determinations — §15.8
  A humanitarian confederation operating in Gaza; later among the 37 international NGOs banned by Israel in December 2025.
  Oxfam
  Oxfam International
• Determinations — §15.8
  A Jewish-American organisation — the determination crosses the very community in whose name impunity is most often claimed.
  Jewish Voice for Peace
  Jewish Voice for Peace
• Recognition of the State of Palestine §15.4
  Documented waypoints, not a continuous series. Contemporaneous counts for the late 1980s and early 1990s conflict between sources, so only figures attributable to a named source on a named date are plotted.
  Palestinian Ministry of Foreign AffairsUN General Assembly
  Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs list of recognitions and the UN documents underlying each entry, compiled as at 12 September 2026; the 2011 count as given by the Palestinian UN ambassador Riyad Mansour, the 2012 figure from UNGA Resolution 67/19.
• The villages depopulated in 1948
  Every row is one town or village emptied of its Arab population between 1947 and 1950. The population and land-area figures are those of 1948, before depopulation. A village counts as a massacre site where the atlas uses the word massacre…
  Salman Abu Sitta, Atlas of PalestineWikipedia (with its own cited sources)
  Salman Abu Sitta, *Atlas of Palestine 1917–1966* (Palestine Land Society, 2010), pp. 108–115, as transcribed in the Wikipedia article "List of towns and villages depopulated in the 1948 Palestine war"
• Recognition of the State of Palestine §15.4
  Two of the recognitions are contested and are marked as such: the Czech Republic, whose government disputes that Czechoslovakia's 1988 recognition carried over, and Papua New Guinea. States that are not UN members are shown where the map d…
  Palestinian Ministry of Foreign AffairsWikipedia (with its own cited sources)
  Wikipedia, "International recognition of Palestine", retrieved 12 September 2026, which cites the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs list and the underlying UN documents for each entry. Dates are as given there.
• Chronology
  The chronology of recorded crimes and massacres, split out of report.json so the Timeline can be read without loading the full report.
  Derived within this record
  The report, Appendix B

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