More than three million years of human life have been lost in Gaza since Israel launched its genocidal war on the besieged territory in October 2023, a new study has found.
The Lancet medical journal published the findings of a research, calculating that each of the 60,199 Palestinians killed between October
More than three million years of human life have been lost in Gaza since Israel launched its genocidal war on the besieged territory in October 2023, a new study has found.
The Lancet medical journal published the findings of a research, calculating that each of the 60,199 Palestinians killed between October 7, 2023, and July 31, 2025, resulted in an average loss of 51 years of life.
The authors, Sammy Zahran of Colorado State University and Ghassan Abu-Sittah of the American University of Beirut, said the vast majority of life-years lost were among civilians, “even under the relaxed definition of a supposed combatant involving all men and boys of possible conscription age (15–44 years).”
More than one million life-years were lost among children under the age of 15, the study found.
Researchers said that the calculation only accounts for direct deaths from Israeli attacks, excluding those killed by destroyed infrastructure, starvation, dehydration, disease, and the collapse of Gaza’s medical system.
The Israeli regime kills an average of 10 Palestinians per day in the Gaza Strip since October 10, a human rights organization reports.
A previous Lancet study earlier this year revealed that Gaza’s death toll had been severely underreported, estimating the real number of fatalities to be at least 40 percent higher than officially recorded due to Israel’s systematic destruction of health-care infrastructure and record-keeping capacity.
The Gaza Health Ministry reported on Saturday that at least 68,527 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza over the past two years, with thousands more believed to be missing beneath rubble or lying in areas rescue crews cannot reach amid widespread destruction and continued danger.
More than two-thirds of the total deaths were women and children, according to the local authorities, who say they were often killed with their families in Israeli airstrikes.
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