Daily Casualties - Lebanon
This dataset provides cumulative totals for those killed and injured in Lebanon since the first report on November 14th, 2023 (see Counting Phases for why the continuous totals below are anchored to October 8, 2023 instead).
Usage
The dataset is available as a single JSON array with an object for each report. You can also download in CSV format below.
Minified JSON
https://data.techforpalestine.org/api/v3/lebanon_casualties_daily.min.json
Unminified JSON
https://data.techforpalestine.org/api/v3/lebanon_casualties_daily.json
CSV
https://data.techforpalestine.org/api/v3/lebanon_casualties_daily.csv
Report Fields
Each report in this JSON array will have the following fields for Lebanon.
(optional fields will be omitted from the JSON if there is no value reported)
| field name | value | optional |
|---|---|---|
| report_date | date in YYYY-MM-DD | no |
| report_source | one of moph_lb, ocha or who (see below) | no |
| report_period | hours covered by this report; a multiple of 24 when days are skipped | no |
| phase | MoPH counting episode this report belongs to (see below) | no |
| killed | killed persons for the given report period | yes |
| killed_cum | continuous cumulative total killed, anchored to October 8, 2023 (see below) | no |
| killed_cum_reported | killed_cum as MoPH actually published it, relative to its own phase | no |
| injured | injured persons for the given report period | yes |
| injured_cum | continuous cumulative total injured, anchored to October 8, 2023 (see below) | no |
| injured_cum_reported | injured_cum as MoPH actually published it, relative to its own phase | no |
Daily Sources
For Lebanon, we depend on Lebanon's Ministry of Public Health (MoPH), relayed through:
moph_lb- figures published directly by the Ministry of Public Health.ocha- UN OCHA flash updates relaying MoPH figures, used before MoPH published its own running total.who- WHO EMRO situation reports relaying MoPH figures, used before MoPH published its own running total.
Unlike the Gaza and West Bank datasets, Lebanon is not reported on a daily basis: rows only exist for dates a report was actually published, so consecutive rows can be several days apart. report_period records how many hours a given row covers.
Counting Phases
Lebanon's Ministry of Public Health restarts its cumulative count at zero for each new escalation. The phase field marks which counting episode a report belongs to:
- Phase 1 - October 8, 2023 through December 4, 2024, closing at 4,047 killed and 16,638 injured. MoPH published its own running "since the start of the aggression" total only from October 28, 2024 onward; earlier figures in this phase are as relayed by OCHA or WHO EMRO.
- Phase 2 - from March 2, 2026, MoPH began counting afresh from zero.
Phase 1's own origin is October 8, 2023 — the same date Gaza and the West Bank count from — but that's not when Lebanon reporting actually begins: the first report available for Lebanon is from November 14, 2023, over five weeks later, already showing 77 killed and 251 injured. Nothing is published for the gap in between, and it is not zero-filled; the dataset simply has no rows before November 14, 2023.
To keep one shared October 2023 origin with the Gaza and West Bank datasets despite that gap and the phase-2 restart, killed_cum and injured_cum are continuous totals derived across phases. The figure exactly as MoPH published it — relative to its own phase — is preserved alongside in killed_cum_reported and injured_cum_reported. If you're comparing a row against the cited source, read the _reported fields; if you want an unbroken time series comparable to Gaza and the West Bank, use killed_cum / injured_cum.