Israeli genocide made 2025 deadliest year for Palestinians since 1967: rights groups
Figures released by the Israeli rights groups showed
that the death toll from the Israeli war reached over 36,000 in March 2024 and
rose to 67,173 by October 2025.
December 2, 2025
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Israeli human rights organisations have deemed 2025
the “deadliest and most destructive” year for Palestinians, with Israel
doubling its killing and forced displacement of civilians in Gaza and the
occupied West Bank.
This came in a joint report released on Tuesday by 12
Israeli human rights groups: Bimkom, Gisha, the Association for Civil Rights in
Israel, the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel, HaMoked, Yesh Din,
Combatants for Peace, Ir Amim, Emek Shaveh, Physicians for Human Rights Israel,
Breaking the Silence, and Torat Tzedek.
“In 2023 and 2024, grave violations were documented in
Gaza during the Israeli genocide, but the outcomes in 2025 reveal a sharp
deterioration, with the death toll nearly doubling, displacement becoming
almost across the entire enclave, and hunger becoming a cause of mass death,”
the report said.
“Violations that were considered exceptional at the
start of the war became part of daily practice” in the current year, the rights
groups said.
“The second year of the war in Gaza was the deadliest
and most destructive for Palestinians since 1967.”
Figures released by the Israeli rights groups showed
that the death toll from the Israeli war reached over 36,000 in March 2024 and
rose to 67,173 by October 2025, including more than 20,000 children and around
10,000 women, in addition to an estimated 10,000 bodies still under the rubble.
The number of wounded surpassed 170,000.
According to the report, Palestinian displacement in
2025 reached 1.9 million people, around 90 percent of Gaza’s population, up
from about 1 million in 2024.
Many were displaced multiple times, the report said,
as entire neighbourhoods and vital infrastructure, including water and
electricity, collapsed.
Regarding Israeli-induced starvation, the report said
that 461 people, including 157 children, died of hunger by October 2025.
The rights groups said that 2,306 Palestinians were
killed and 16,929 wounded while waiting for aid delivery in a “daily tragedy”
created by the Israeli mechanism in 2025.
Illegal settler violence
According to the rights groups, about 1,200 attacks by
illegal settlers were recorded between 2023 and 2024 in the occupied West Bank,
while large-scale violence escalated in 2025.
The report found that 44 Palestinian herding
communities were fully displaced, and 10 communities were partially emptied,
taking the total number of displaced Palestinians to 2,932, including 1,326
children.
It added that the number of administrative detainees,
who are held without charge, rose from 1,000 in 2023 to 3,577 in 2025, three
times the prewar average.
The report documented at least 98 Palestinian deaths
in Israeli custody due to torture, denial of medical treatment, and inhumane
detention conditions.
“2025 revealed a reality previously unimaginable: a
state operating without limits, systematically violating international law,
dismantling the very values it claims to uphold. Israel cannot claim morality
or self-defence.”
Palestinian and Israeli rights organisations have
repeatedly reported torture of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails,
including beatings, starvation, and sexual abuse.
The Israeli forces have escalated their attacks in the
occupied West Bank since October 2023.
More than 1,085 Palestinians have since been killed,
and 10,700 others wounded in attacks by the army and illegal Israeli settlers
in the occupied territory.
Over 20,500 people have also been arrested.
In a landmark opinion last July, the International
Court of Justice declared Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory illegal
and called for the evacuation of all settlements in the West Bank and East
Jerusalem.