Destruction of Gaza

Hospitals: UNOCHA† reports more than half of Gaza’s 36 hospitals are out of service

Homes: 1.7 million of Gaza Strip’s 2.3 million people displaced from their homes. 41,000 housing units destroyed, 222,000 damaged

Schools: Gaza’s 625,000 students unable to access education – 279 educational facilities damaged

Humanitarian aid: Before conflict, average of 500 trucks of food and goods enter Gaza each day

Oct 21: Aid trucks resume, but fewer than 80 trucks/day are allowed from Egypt through Rafah crossing

Nov 16: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu admits attempts to minimize casualties are “not successful”


FATALITIES

Men 3,000
Women 3,500
Children 5,500
Elderly 700
Others 300*
Palestinians 13,000 (Hamas figures)

Israelis 1,200
Plus 387 Israeli Defense Forces

*Includes 104 UN and 48 media personnel


Beit Hanoun
Al-Shifa Hospital
Gaza City
GAZA STRIP
Deir el-Balah
Rafah
Khan Younis
EGYPT
Rafah crossing
5km 3 miles


West bank
Gaza Strip
ISRAEL
80km 50 miles


Nov 18, Khan Younis: Israeli missiles strike residential building, killing 26 people

Nov 20: 28 of 31 premature babies evacuated from Al-Shifa Hospital cross into Egypt


†United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs 


Sources: AFP, ReliefWeb, Reuters, UNOCHA, WAFA 
Pictures: Getty Images
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