2025 Deadliest Year for Palestinians Since 1967, Israeli Rights Groups Report

A coalition of 12 prominent Israeli human rights organizations has declared 2025 the “deadliest and most destructive” year for Palestinians since 1967, citing a dramatic escalation in killings, forced displacement, and systemic violations in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

In a joint report released Tuesday, the groups—including B’Tselem, Gisha, and Physicians for Human Rights Israel—stated that the death toll in Gaza nearly doubled in 2025, rising from over 36,000 in March 2024 to 67,173 by October 2025. The figures include more than 20,000 children and approximately 10,000 women, with an estimated 10,000 more bodies still buried under rubble.

Displacement in Gaza reached catastrophic levels, with around 1.9 million people—approximately 90% of the enclave’s population—forced from their homes, up from 1 million in 2024. Many were displaced multiple times as neighborhoods and critical infrastructure collapsed.

The report also highlighted starvation as a weapon of war, noting that 461 people, including 157 children, had died of hunger by October 2025. Additionally, 2,306 Palestinians were killed and 16,929 wounded while waiting for aid in what the groups described as a “daily tragedy” created by Israeli restrictions.

In the occupied West Bank, settler violence escalated sharply, with 44 Palestinian herding communities fully displaced and 10 partially emptied. Administrative detentions without charge tripled, reaching 3,577 detainees, and at least 98 Palestinian prisoners died in Israeli custody due to torture, medical neglect, and inhumane conditions.

“2025 revealed a reality previously unimaginable,” the report concluded. “A state operating without limits, systematically violating international law, dismantling the very values it claims to uphold.”

Source: TRT World