100 days of genocide: key stats on Gaza

We’ve now passed 100 days of Israel’s brutal and indiscriminate bombing of Gaza, which is currently being prosecuted as a genocide in the ICJ. Here are some stats from the past 100 days to highlight the unprecedented destruction.

The scale of destruction is beyond a scale ever seen in Gaza, especially in Gaza City, which has drawn comparisons to the worst bombardments of world conflicts in recent history, including Mariupol in Ukraine and Aleppo in Syria.

“Gaza is one of the most intense civilian punishment campaigns in history. It now sits comfortably in the top quartile of the most devastating bombing campaigns ever” - US military historian, Robert Pape

“136 of our colleagues in Gaza have been killed in 75 days - something we have never seen in the history of the United Nations” - UN Secretary General, António Guterres

“An entire generation of children is traumatised and will take years to heal. Thousands have been killed, maimed, and orphaned. Hundreds of thousands are deprived of education. Their future is in jeopardy, with far-reaching and long-lasting consequences” - Phillippe Lazzarini, the Commissioner-General of UNRWA, the UN agency in Gaza

More stats for context:

  • 70% of the dead are women and children

  • 85% of Gaza’s population have been forced out of their homes

  • The 113 journalists killed in three months is more than were killed over six years during WW2

  • More civilians have been killed than the US-led coalition did in its 3-year campaign against ISIS

  • 8,000 are under rubble and presumed dead

  • More than 1% of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million have been killed in just three months

  • 1,000 children have had one or both legs amputated, mostly without anaesthetic due to the Israeli blockade on healthcare aid