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SvennoJ on 05 October 2025
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More than 2,700 families in Gaza wiped off civil registry: Authorities

To mark two years of attacks by Israel, the Government Media Office in Gaza has released a series of figures detailing the devastating toll the war has taken on Palestinians:

  • About 90 percent of the Gaza Strip has been totally destroyed by the Israeli military, which controls more than 80 percent of the territory through ground invasion, armed attacks and forced displacement orders.
  • Israel has dropped more than 200,000 tonnes of explosives on the besieged enclave – and has bombed the so-called “safe zone” of al-Mawasi at least 136 times.
  • At least 1,015 children under one year old have been killed by Israel, along with 1,670 medical staff, 254 journalists, and 140 civil defence rescue workers among over 77,000 Palestinians.
  • More than 2,700 families, comprising more than 8,500 people, have been wiped off the civil registry. At least 56,348 children are orphaned.
  • Israel has bombed 38 hospitals out of commission, with another 96 healthcare centres destroyed, and 197 ambulances and 61 civil defence vehicles also targeted.
  • More than 835 mosques have been destroyed and another 180 are damaged, while three churches have been targeted multiple times. Forty cemeteries also were destroyed and bodies taken.
  • The total value of initial direct damages as a result of the genocide is estimated at $70bn, including $28bn worth of damage to housing, $5bn to healthcare, and $4bn to the education sector.


Palestinians look on as smoke rises following Israeli attacks in Gaza City, as seen from the central Gaza Strip, October 5


One in five Gaza babies born prematurely or underweight: UN

The UN has reiterated its call for humanitarian assistance to be allowed into the enclave, stressing that Palestinian newborns are particularly vulnerable.

“Aid at scale is critical to save lives,” it said in a post on X.


Gaza authorities report 131 Israeli attacks in 48 hours

The Israeli military has killed at least 94 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip over the past two days despite Trump calling on Israel to stop its bombing campaign, according to the enclave’s Government Media Office.

It said in a statement that from dawn on Saturday until the end of the day on Sunday, at least 131 Israeli air and artillery attacks targeted densely populated civilian areas and killed displaced Palestinians, including 61 in Gaza City.

“This ongoing crime falls within the framework of the ongoing genocide crime against our Palestinian people, confirming that the occupation disregards all international calls for calm and insists on continuing the systematic killing of civilians and destroying the means of life,” the media office said.


Smoke rises from Gaza after an Israeli attack on October 5