By SCM Staff I Saturday, Sept 28, 2025
GAZA CITY — The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza reported Sunday that the total number of Palestinians killed in the Israeli military campaign has surpassed 66,000 since the conflict began on October 7, 2023.
The ministry’s daily statistical report, released September 29, 2025, indicated a sharp influx of casualties in the past 24 hours, with 79 martyrs (including two bodies recovered earlier) and 379 injuries arriving at hospitals across the Gaza Strip.
The ministry stated that the cumulative toll since the start of the aggression has reached 66,005 martyrs and 168,162 injuries.
A separate, more recent accounting within that total shows 13,137 martyrs and 56,121 injuries documented between March 18, 2025, and today.
The report emphasized the difficulty humanitarian and medical teams face in reaching victims in ongoing combat zones.
“A number of victims are still under the rubble and on the roads, as ambulance and civil defense crews are unable to reach them until now,” the statement said.
This suggests the true casualty figure for the past day, and the war overall, may be higher than the officially recorded hospital data.
Aid Workers Targeted
The report also detailed casualties among those attempting to secure essential supplies. The number of aid distributors killed has continued to climb, with 6 martyrs and 66 injuries among this group reported to hospitals in the past 24 hours.
The total number of people killed while attempting to secure “livelihood,” which includes those at aid distribution points, has reached 2,566 martyrs and more than 18,769 injuries since the start of the conflict.
The release of these grim figures comes as the conflict continues to drive a deepening humanitarian crisis across the territory.
The Israeli military has repeatedly stated that its operations target Hamas militants and infrastructure and that it takes measures to minimize civilian casualties, a claim that human rights groups and international organizations have consistently questioned in light of the high death toll.
The Ministry of Health’s figures do not distinguish between combatants and non-combatants, a task complicated by the collapse of Gaza’s civil administration, but the overwhelming majority of casualties reported by the U.N. and other independent observers have been civilians, including thousands of women and children.
