Report says 680,000 Gazans died since October 7 2023. Israel today “strongly condemns the mass slaughter of innocent civilians” in Iran

The combined number of deaths and injuries in the Gaza Strip has surpassed 240,000 since the conflict between Hamas and Israel erupted on October 7, 2023, according to Gaza's Ministry of Health, authorities run, as Israelis point out, by Hamas.

A report written by Israeli academic Yaakov Garb for the Harvard Dataverse in June 2025 estimated that nearly 377,000 Palestinians remain unaccounted for since October 2023.

A report by academics Richard Hil (sic) and Gideon Polya in September 2025 said Israel was responsible for 680,000 deaths in Gaza by April 2025, 380,000 of whom were infants under 5 and 99,000 children over 5.

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, who is wanted to stand trial for war crimes by the International Criminal Court, said today that Israel “strongly condemns the mass slaughter of innocent civilians” in Iran.