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Thursday, May 22, 2025
Hamas ministry purports to publish full list of 16,503 children and teenagers killed in Gaza war
Nurit Yohanan is The Times of Israel's Palestinian and Arab world correspondent
The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry publishes a list of 16,503 children and teenagers aged 0–18 it claims were killed as a direct result of the war in Gaza, meaning as a result of gunfire and bombings.
The full list includes names, ID numbers, birth dates, and information on how the data on their deaths was collected — either from hospital casualty lists or updates provided by their families to the ministry.
There is no independent verification of the data. In the past, studies have pointed to inaccuracies and errors in the lists and figures published by the Hamas-controlled authorities in Gaza, which routinely don’t differentiate between combatants and civilians, and allegedly include some killed by misfired Palestinian rockets or from natural causes.
The Times of Israel Community.