Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS)
The West Bank-based Palestinian Authority statistical bureau.
Click on the graphic below for the homepage, give it a few seconds to load. The links below take you to the corresponding detail pages on the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics website. Sources appear at the bottom of pages.
- Dead is broken down into Gaza Strip, West Bank, Children, Women, Elderly, Medical Staff, Journalists, Teachers, Civil Defense, UN staff, and those Missing (presumed dead under the rubble).
- Injured is broken down into totals and number of Children injured in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.
- Destruction includes Destroyed and Partially Damaged Housing Units, Destroyed Buildings, Hospitals out of service and damaged, Ambulances, Government Buildings, Churches and Mosques, and Destroyed and Partially Damaged Schools.
- Detainees is broken down into the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
World Health Organization Health Cluster information from 52 organizations
Click to access latest statistics.
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs – “October 2023 escalation” section
Click to get recent news from OCHA.
UNRWA Data: Escalations in Gaza – Killed & Injured Persons in Gaza
Hosted on the The Humanitarian Data Exchange. Click here to access their dataset—available as Google Doc, CSV, JSON, etc.
Reuters graphic until 17 December 2023 – Periods noted of inability to report
Overviews & Dashboards of Casualty Statistics & Other Metrics
- Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
- World Health Organization – Occupied Palestinian Territories Health Cluster – information from 52 organizations
- World Health Organization – SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM FOR ATTACKS ON HEALTH CARE (SSA)
- GISHA – The humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza: Facts and figures
- Wikipedia – Casualties of the 2023 Israel–Hamas war – Note: This is Wikipedia.
Ongoing Reporting that includes Casualty Statistics & other Metrics
- United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs – October 2023 escalation
- Palestinian Center for Human Rights in Gaza: Israel’s war on Gaza 2023 section – various reports
How the Dead are Counted
- On this website: Israeli Propaganda: Palestinians are ‘Lying About The Numbers’ – an essay about my experience of looking at Palestinian casualty statistics for 34 years, and a collection of reports and studies into the collection of this data.
- Reuters: Mapping the conflict in Israel and Gaza (22 December 2023) – includes graphic showing periods during bombardment and communications outages where it was not possible to update statistics
- BBC Verify: Israel Gaza: What Gaza’s death toll says about the war (20 December 2023)
- BBC News: How the dead are counted in Gaza (15 November 2023)
- Associated Press: “What is Gaza’s Ministry of Health and how does it calculate the war’s death toll?” (6 November 2023)
Articles supporting the Gaza Ministry of Health’s statistics
- The Science Is Clear. Over 30,000 People Have Died in Gaza by Les Roberts, TIME magazine (15 March 2015)
- BBC Verify: Israel Gaza: What Gaza’s death toll says about the war (20 December 2023)
- The Lancet: No evidence of inflated mortality reporting from the Gaza Ministry of Health, by Benjamin Q Huynh, Elizabeth T Chin and Paul B Spiegel, (6 December 2023)
- The Lancet: Excess mortality in Gaza: Oct 7–26, 2023, by Zeina Jamaluddine, Francesco Checchi, and Oona M R Campbell (26 November 2023)
- Associated Press: Gaza health officials say they lost the ability to count dead as Israeli offensive intensifies (21 November 2023)
- BBC News: How the dead are counted in Gaza (15 November 2023)
- Associated Press: “What is Gaza’s Ministry of Health and how does it calculate the war’s death toll?” (6 November 2023)
Difficulties in Compiling Statistics During Conflict
- Reuters: Mapping the conflict in Israel and Gaza (22 December 2023) – includes graphic showing periods where it was not possible to update statistics
- Reuters: Gaza death toll: : why counting the dead has become a daily struggle (22 December 2023)
- Associated Press: Gaza health officials say they lost the ability to count dead as Israeli offensive intensifies (21 November 2023)
- Reuters: Palestinian officials say harder to update Gaza casualty toll as health system buckles (15 November 2023)
On this website
Israeli Propaganda: Palestinians are ‘Lying About The Numbers’ – a personal essay about my experiences of following Palestinian casualty statistics for 34 years, and a collection of reports and studies into the collection of this data.
