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Israeli military confirms 900 soldiers killed since start of Gaza genocide

Iran Press TV

Sunday, 31 August 2025 10:15 AM

The Israeli military has announced that since the beginning of the Gaza genocide on October 7, 2023, a total of 900 Israeli soldiers have been killed and 6,210 others wounded.

Among the dead are 295 reservists and 154 career troops, the report said.

The figure includes 311 soldiers killed on October 7-8, during the Hamas-led operation Al-Aqsa Storm and the ensuing fighting along the Gaza border.

Since then, the report added, another 589 soldiers have been killed, 456 of them in the ground offensive inside Gaza.

The report noted that the Golani Brigade has suffered the highest losses, with 114 dead, since the devastating Israeli war on Gaza began.

The military also said 6,213 soldiers have been wounded since the war began: 925 seriously, 1,540 moderately, and 3,748 lightly.

Of those, 2,883 were injured in the Gaza ground offensive. Ten soldiers remain hospitalized in serious condition.

On Sunday, Israeli media reported renewed fighting between Palestinian resistance fighters and the Israeli military in Gaza City's Zaytoun neighborhood, resulting in the death of at least one Israeli soldier.

Reports also stated that nine other soldiers had been wounded, amid fears that four may have been captured. Israeli helicopters were reportedly evacuating soldiers under heavy fire.

Military experts described the operation as a "significant tactical setback" for the Israeli forces, undermining the regime's narrative regarding the strength of Hamas.

The Israeli military is known to hide the numbers of its dead and wounded in an effort to maintain morale among its soldiers and convey the image to the Israeli public that it is winning the war against Hamas and the Palestinian resistance.

In February, Israel's then newly appointed Chief of Staff, Eyal Zamir, revealed a significant discrepancy between the actual war losses in Gaza and the figures previously reported by the Israeli military, stating that the number of soldiers killed and wounded is much higher than officially disclosed.

Zamir said there were at least 5,942 registered "bereaved families" since 7 October, with some likely having more than one family member killed in the Israeli war on Gaza.

The Israeli military uses the phrase "bereaved families" to refer to a family of military personnel who had been confirmed killed in the war, and does not include civilians, Al Jazeera's Israel expert Azzam Abu Al-Adas confirmed at the time