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UN verifies 1,076 deaths in Gaza after ceasefire announcement

A new UN Human Rights account says killings continued through the first nine months after the October 2025 announcement and raises grave concerns about attacks on civilians.

13 OCT 2026 · 3 min read

Archive image of a displaced family preparing a meal at a camp in Gaza, photographed during the 2023–25 war by Jaber Jehad Badwan. — Archive · Archive photograph: Jaber Jehad Badwan, Gaza, 2023–25 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. This is not a photograph of the deaths in the UN report. · Licence · Cropped for display. Context image, not a photograph of this event.

UN Human Rights says it has verified 1,076 conflict-related deaths in Gaza between the announcement of a ceasefire on 10 October 2025 and the end of July 2026. Its statement, issued on 12 October, says Israeli attacks continued during that period and raises serious concerns about the protection of civilians. The verified total includes 268 children, 126 women and 682 men.

Two figures, different measures

The UN also cites a higher figure of more than 1,400 Palestinians killed since the ceasefire announcement, attributed to Gaza’s Ministry of Health. That reported figure extends beyond the UN verification cut-off at the end of July and uses a different method. The figures should not be added together or presented as competing counts for the same period.

What the UN says about civilian harm

The UN office says 64 children were verified killed in reported Israeli attacks in which no adults died. It says the pattern raises serious concerns that civilians not taking part in hostilities may have been targeted, which would be a war crime. This is the office’s assessment, not a finding by a court about any individual strike. It calls on other states to use their influence to stop violations and support accountability mechanisms.

Why this matters now

A ceasefire announcement does not itself guarantee civilian safety. The UN’s new account puts a verified measure of deaths alongside reported deaths and calls attention to the continuing risks faced by Palestinians in Gaza. The graphic above was made by Accordmere from the UN’s published figures on 13 October; it is not an image of an attack or of the victims.