Since early June, the Ministry of Health in Gaza has been reporting additional casualties broken down by those attributed to famine and those attributed to seeking aid.
We've added four new fields to the Gaza Daily Casualties dataset, and the latest values from these fields are also surfaced in our Summary dataset.
Famine / Starvation
Around July 20th, the Ministry began reporting daily numbers of those killed by starvation or malnutrition. These numbers are reported in total and a subset total for children. These numbers have been reported reliably on a daily basis since that date.
famine_cumis the cumulative total killed by famine on the daily datasetchild_famine_cumis the cumulative total of children killed by famine on the daily datasetgaza.famine.totalis the latest cumulative value from the daily dataset of famine_cum on the summary datasetgaza.famine.childrenis the latest cumulative value from the daily dataset of child_famine_cum on the summary dataset
Aid Seeker Casualties
In early June (first reported on June 2nd), the Ministry began sharing the number of those killed and injured in the act of seeking aid. These reports became consistent on a daily basis on July 1st. Before this date you will find our datasets skip some dates up to 3 days at a time in June.
aid_seeker_killed_cumis the cumulative total killed while seeking aid on the daily datasetaid_seeker_injured_cumis the cumulative total injured while seeking aid on the daily datasetgaza.aid_seeker.killedis the latest cumulative value from the daily dataset of aid_seeker_killed_cum available on the summary datasetgaza.aid_seeker.injuredis the latest cumulative value from the daily dataset of aid_seeker_injured_cum available on the summary dataset
It is assumed that these counts are included in the killed & injured totals since the remainder when subtracting these values from their respective totals is never negative.