Today marks one year since the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel.

The invasion initially killed more than 1,200 Israelis and around 250 people were taken hostage. 

Israel responded with a massive bombing campaign which has continued for the last 12 months, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowing to continue battling to defeat Hamas in the Gaza Strip until “total victory.”

It’s been 365 days of men, women, and children killed, international pressure for ceasefire, families torn apart, worldwide protests and marches, and attacks spreading to Iran and Lebanon threatening to push the Middle East closer toward a region-wide war.

Here’s where things are at one year on, by the numbers. 

More than 41,000 Palestinians dead 

As of September 30, at least 41,615 people have been killed since October 7, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health. 

More than 1,200 Israelis dead

This estimate includes foreign nationals. There have also been more than 5000 Israelis injured. These numbers are according to Israeli media citing official sources.

More than 1.9 million people displaced

The United Nations estimate almost the entire population of Gaza has been displaced since October 7. 

António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, has said the humanitarian system in Gaza is hanging by a thread. 

In his address at the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Guterres said: “The speed and scale of the killing and destruction in Gaza are unlike anything in my years as secretary-general.” 

85% of school buildings in Gaza hit and damaged

Last month alone 11 schools in Gaza were hit. In September, Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner-General of the UN Palestine refugee agency, UNRWA, told UN News that the longer the fighting goes on, the greater the chance of losing an entire generation.

Children in Gaza have been unable to attend school since the October 7 attack. 

19 hospitals in Gaza out of service

As of October 2, 19 of 36 hospitals are out of action. 

Last week Doctors without Borders released a statement saying Israel’s siege had destroyed Gaza’s already fragile health system and displaced people who have been forced into smaller areas with no access to “desperately needed food, water, and medicines”. 

On Tuesday The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said under a new project launched by World Health Organisation (WHO) in the north, 240 EMT doctors have been deployed to the Emergency Department of the Al-Shifa Hospital to provide both trauma and non-trauma services.

OCHA says health facilities in Gaza are experiencing severe supply shortages due to obstacles to the entry of humanitarian aid, as well as a growing backlog of health supplies and equipment awaiting entry into Gaza. 

More than 11,000 children in Gaza dead and 17,000 children displaced or separated

A new Oxfam analysis found more women and children have been killed in Gaza by the Israeli military over the past year than the equivalent period of any other conflict over the past two decades. 

There are conflicting reports of exactly how many children have died. The Ministry of Health in Gaza, as of August 31, has fully identified 11,355 children who have died. But some outlets are reporting as many as 16,500 children dead. 

101 people still held hostage

117 hostages have been returned and 101 remain in Gaza. 

More than 10,000 people missing 

The Government Media Office in Gaza reports more than 10,000 people are still missing or under the rubble. 

124 countries supported a recent United Nations General Assembly resolution. 14 were against, with 43 abstentions

In September, New Zealand was one of 124 countries that voted yes for a Palestinian-drafted resolution that demanded Israel end "its unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory" within 12 months.

Banner image: GAZA CITY, GAZA - SEPTEMBER 19: A Palestinian woman carrying her child in her arms cries in front of a collapsed building as the dead bodies of Palestinians who died in Israel's attack on the Bureij Refugee Camp brought to the al-Awda Hospital for burial in Gaza City, Gaza on September 19, 2024. It was reported that there were dead and injured people as a result of the attack carried out by the Israeli army. (Photo by Ashraf Amra/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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