The independent research published in the world’s leading medical journals reports that more than 75,000 people have died in Gaza in “violent deaths” by early 2025. The data comes from a landmark series of scientific papers that suggest that administrative records from the Gaza Ministry of Home demonstrate a “floor,” not an overcount.
The Gaza Mortality Survey (GMS), a population-representative household study published in The Lancet Global Health, revealed an estimation of 75,200 “violent deaths” between October 7, 2023, and January 5, 2025; this represents approximately 3.4 percent of Gaza’s population before the conflict.
As of now, at least 72,063 people have been killed since the start of the genocidal war on Gaza. Out of these, 603 people have lost their lives after the “ceasefire” declaration.
Researchers noted that although the overall figure is higher, the demographic composition of the casualties with women, children, and the elderly accounting for 56.2 percent of those killed remains broadly consistent with official Palestinian reports.
Meantime, an Israeli army official, while talking to journalists, revealed that the army accepted that about 70,000 people have been killed in Gaza during the genocidal war.
This comes ahead of the reports published by Al Jazeera, which said Israeli strikes on Gaza have reportedly “evaporated” at least 2,842 Palestinians.
The investigation reveals that the experts and witnesses associated this phenomenon with Israel’s systematic use of prohibited thermal and thermobaric weapons, which are capable of exceeding 3,500 degrees Celsius.
It further tells that the intense heat is often generated by tritonal, a mixture of TNT and aluminum powder, which is used in the United States.
The testimonies of families were also reported, recalling that they were unable to find any trace or remains of their loved ones killed in bombardments, which left them without even the burial.
“If a family tells us there were five people inside, and we only recover three intact bodies, we treat the remaining two as ‘evaporated’ only after an exhaustive search yields nothing but biological traces blood spray on walls or small fragments like scalps,” Spokesperson Mahmoud Basal told Al Jazeera.
