“They are a pattern, and reflect policy and an acceptance on the part of the state that this should continue indefinitely.” Legal Expert
Israeli occupation forces have killed nearly 3,000 Palestinians and injured almost 20,000 others attempting to secure food aid in the Gaza Strip over the past 23 months, according to an investigation by The New Humanitarian.
The news outlet said that almost 200 attacks on aid seekers between January 2024 and the end of July this year resulted in over 1,200 people killed and close to 4,700 injured.
“These numbers are a conservative estimate and do not include attacks or casualty figures near GHF sites, which opened on 27 May,” the outlet’s report, dated September 15, stated.
The New Humanitarian has published the findings of a detailed investigation showing nearly 3000 Gazans have been killed by Israel while seeking aid over the last 23 months, an “escalation of a deadly tactic that has been a key part of Israeli strategy”https://t.co/ZZAPaAL8Ui
— Philip Proudfoot (@PhilipProudfoot) September 15, 2025
It “paused” documentation at the end of July “in order to have adequate time to fact-check incidents before publication.”
After factoring in the number of fatalities near Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) sites, as well as numbers from the UN’s human rights office (OHCHR), the total death on aid seekers is “at least 2,957 people killed over the past 23 months,” in addition to 19,866 wounded. This is based on their own documentation as well as numbers from Gaza’s Ministry of Health.
These figures account for “around 4.6% of the more than 64,600 deaths” due to Israel’s ongoing genocidal operation in Gaza during this time period, “and just over 12% of all wounded.”
‘A Pattern, Policy’
The news outlet shared the database findings with several legal experts before publication, including Adil Haque, an international law professor at Rutgers University in the US, who said the data reflects policy.
“These are not isolated incidents. They’re not just similar incidents. They are a pattern, and reflect policy and an acceptance on the part of the state that this should continue indefinitely,” Haque said.
“For over a year, The New Humanitarian has been conducting an open-source investigation documenting Israeli attacks on people seeking aid in Gaza. We have compiled a database of nearly 200 incidents … resulting in at least 1,215 people killed and 4,691 wounded.” pic.twitter.com/tcOq4jw1Zw
— Adil Haque (@AdHaque110) September 15, 2025
The outlet pointed out that both the frequency of attacks and the rising number of casualties have “dramatically escalated” since the US and Israeli-backed GHF began operation at the end of May.
Prior to that, “we recorded 663 people killed in Israeli attacks on aid seekers. In just over three months since then, nearly 2,300 people have been killed,” the report stated.
Haque said that if Israeli leaders “were simply indifferent to the killing of so many Palestinian aid-seekers, not caring one way or the other, then international condemnation and potential liability for war crimes should be enough to lead them to change their policies to prevent or repress such killings.”
He added, “Their willingness to bear such costs is some evidence that they intend for these killings to continue.”
‘Tool in the War’
The report stated that there were “clearly discernible patterns” proving how Israel has used attacks on aid seekers “as a tool for different purposes at different points in the war.” This included “deadly crowd control, forced displacement, and the destruction of the collective ability of Palestinians in Gaza to survive.”
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Each incident contained in the report “is a potential war crime,” the report added.
The news outlet said that in order to compile the report, it tracked more than 500 incidents in which Israeli forces killed or wounded civilians receiving aid.
Real Death Toll ‘Likely Higher’
Its analysis relied on the work of Palestinian journalists and researchers reporting despite unrelenting danger in Gaza, including many killed by Israeli strikes, such as Mariam Abu Daqqa and Mohammed Qreiqeh.
The outlet noted that a significant decline in visual evidence and on-the-ground reporting, attributing it to the killing of at least 197 journalists in Gaza, citing the Committee to Protect Journalists’ figures.
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“We’re confident our estimate is not an overcount,” the report stated, adding that the approach utlised in the probe “likely undercounts wounded – particularly in recent high-casualty incidents near the Zikim border crossing in the north and at GHF sites, where we’ve frequently seen early reports describe “several” wounded, and then seen visual evidence of many casualties or reports from hospitals or medical NGOs that count dozens or hundreds of casualties.”
It stressed that the real death toll “is likely higher than our estimate.”
(The Palestine Chronicle)
That poor girl in the top photo: you can hear her pain, sadness, fear. To hell with every last one of the Israeli Jewish Nazis who are occupying Palestine. The Israeli Jews are the problem, but everyone’s too afraid to say anything. GROW A PAIR!
IF what our Western media is reporting is true, BIG IF, the latest poll in israel reveals that a majority of zionists still feel no pity for the Palestinian People even in the midst of GENOCIDE!.. In this situation, it is necessary to DESTROY the ” enemy-image ” of the Palestinians that israel has created and maintained… HAMAS should invite the hostage families into Gaza to meet with their loved ones… IF such can be brought about, at the end of these meetings HAMAS should announce that the families can take their loved ones home with them….. IF and only IF israel withdraws from Gaza and declares the war at an END with a UN Security Council vote…This would break israel in two!
Christopher nailed it! Hamas should release the hostages directly to their families. Bypass the Israeli Nazis, hit them in the ego.
Christopher & Kronikdenny: “release the hostages directly to their families” and “latest poll in israel reveals that a majority of zionists still feel no pity for the Palestinian People even in the midst of GENOCIDE”: if the “Israelis” get their hostages back, the families would continuing relish the extermination of Palestine. “Israel”, both “families” and military, are one: extermination. I think both of your thinking here is false.
There is no good solution, because the Jewish Nazis don’t want peace. They would just kill the hostages then blame it on Hamas to keep the war going.
What would you do, Peter?