Lina Altawell<\/p>\n
02 July 2026\u2022Update: 02 July 2026<\/p>\n
Preliminary direct losses from war estimated at $80B<\/p>\n
Israeli controls more than 80% of the Gaza Strip after 1,000 days of genocide, with over 223,000 tons of explosives dropped on the enclave, according to a statistical update released by the Gaza government on Thursday.<\/p>\n
More than 73,000 Palestinians have been killed, including over 21,500 children and 12,500 women, while 9,500 others remain missing, the government media office said in a statement.<\/p>\n
A total of 173,514 Palestinians have been injured, including 433 journalists, while 5,400 people have undergone amputations, 18% of them children, it said.<\/p>\n
The office also documented 1,500 cases of paralysis and 1,200 cases of vision loss.<\/p>\n
More than 58,800 children have been orphaned, while more than 2.14 million cases of infectious diseases have been recorded, including 71,338 cases of viral hepatitis, according to the statement.<\/p>\n
Israel has completely destroyed 1,047 mosques and partially damaged 210 others, targeted three churches, and killed 312 mosque imams, preachers, Quran teachers, and other religious figures, it added.<\/p>\n
It also said Israel destroyed or forced out of service 38 hospitals and 96 health care centers, and targeted 197 ambulances, 84 emergency vehicles, and 16 civil defense centers.<\/p>\n
The government estimated the preliminary direct losses from the war at about $80 billion, including $34 billion in the housing sector.<\/p>\n
According to the statement, Israel has completely destroyed 335,000 buildings and housing units and damaged 737,000 others.<\/p>\n
The government media office said Israel launched its genocide, with US support, on Oct. 8, 2023, and that it officially ended with the entry into force of a ceasefire agreement on Oct. 10, 2025.<\/p>\n
However, it said Israel continued violating the agreement through daily bombardment, tightening the siege, and blocking the entry of sufficient humanitarian, food, and medical aid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lina Altawell 02 July 2026\u2022Update: 02 July 2026 Preliminary direct losses from war estimated at $80B Israeli controls…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43,180804],"class_list":["post-521487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-sitekeywords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}