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Gaza Strip, Israel and Palestine: events and estimated deaths in May 2025

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UCDP recorded 425 events of organized violence in Gaza Strip, Israel and Palestine in May 2025. The best estimate of deaths in these events is 2,096. The low estimate is 2,006 and the high estimate is 2,192. UCDP counts 573 of these deaths as deaths of civilians. The count for April 2025 was 338 events.

Among the 26 months with a report for Gaza Strip, Israel and Palestine, May 2025 has the 2nd highest count of events. Gaza Strip, Israel and Palestine holds 98 percent of the events that UCDP recorded in Israel and Palestine in May 2025.

The report of the country for this month: Israel and Palestine, May 2025.

Not all events in UCDP Candidate will make it into the final UCDP GED and new events will be added. The UCDP Candidate is a dataset containing events that have a high probability of being included in the final annual version of UCDP GED.

An incident where armed force was used by an organized actor against another organized actor, or against civilians, resulting in at least 1 direct death at a specific location and a specific date

UCDP's words. Source: UCDP Candidate Events Dataset Codebook, version 1.5 (Introduction) and UCDP GED Codebook, version 26.1 (section 2, the definition of an event), copied on .

This page rests on UCDP GED 26.1 and UCDP Candidate Events 26.0.9, with data through . The figures from January 2026 are from Candidate Events. Candidate Events are preliminary and UCDP revises them.

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Events

The table lists the events with 10 or more estimated deaths. The CSV file of Israel and Palestine has each event.

Table 1. Gaza Strip, May 2025: events with 10 or more estimated deaths (54 of 425 events), in the order of their dates
DatePlaceSides, as UCDP writes themType of violenceEstimated deathsLowHigh
2 May 2025Gaza ash Shamaliyah governorate, Gaza StripGovernment of Israel; HamasState-based10810
2 May 2025Deir al-Balah governorate, Gaza StripGovernment of Israel; HamasState-based11311
3 May 2025Khan Younis governorate, Gaza StripGovernment of Israel; HamasState-based111111
3 May 2025Gaza governorate, Gaza StripGovernment of Israel; HamasState-based101010
4 May 2025Khan Younis governorate, Gaza StripGovernment of Israel; HamasState-based101010
4 May 2025Gaza governorate, Gaza StripGovernment of Israel; HamasState-based151515
5 May 2025Gaza ash Shamaliyah governorate, Gaza StripGovernment of Israel; HamasState-based151515
6 May 2025Deir al-Balah governorate, Gaza StripGovernment of Israel; HamasState-based323254
7 May 2025Gaza governorate, Gaza StripGovernment of Israel; HamasState-based211721
7 May 2025Gaza governorate, Gaza StripGovernment of Israel; HamasState-based333233
7 May 2025Gaza ash Shamaliyah governorate, Gaza StripGovernment of Israel; HamasState-based101010
7 May 2025Gaza StripGovernment of Israel; HamasState-based282832
12 May 2025Gaza ash Shamaliyah governorate, Gaza StripGovernment of Israel; HamasState-based161516
12 May 2025Gaza ash Shamaliyah governorate, Gaza StripGovernment of Israel; HamasState-based141414
13 May 2025Khan Younis governorate, Gaza StripGovernment of Israel; HamasState-based292949
14 May 2025Gaza ash Shamaliyah governorate, Gaza StripGovernment of Israel; HamasState-based514551
15 May 2025Khan Younis governorate, Gaza StripGovernment of Israel; HamasState-based272727
15 May 2025Khan Younis governorate, Gaza StripGovernment of Israel; HamasState-based131313
15 May 2025Gaza ash Shamaliyah governorate, Gaza StripGovernment of Israel; HamasState-based151515
15 May 2025Khan Younis governorate, Gaza StripGovernment of Israel; HamasState-based121212
15 May 2025Gaza StripGovernment of Israel; HamasState-based232323
15 May 2025Gaza ash Shamaliyah governorate, Gaza StripGovernment of Israel; HamasState-based13013
16 May 2025Gaza ash Shamaliyah governorate, Gaza StripGovernment of Israel; HamasState-based242424
16 May 2025Gaza StripGovernment of Israel; HamasState-based191919
16 May 2025Gaza ash Shamaliyah governorate, Gaza StripGovernment of Israel; HamasState-based181818
16 May 2025Khan Younis governorate, Gaza StripGovernment of Israel; HamasState-based13313
17 May 2025Deir al-Balah governorate, Gaza StripGovernment of Israel; HamasState-based101010
17 May 2025Khan Younis governorate, Gaza StripGovernment of Israel; HamasState-based513651
17 May 2025Gaza StripGovernment of Israel; HamasState-based108108108
18 May 2025Khan Younis governorate, Gaza StripGovernment of Israel; HamasState-based202020
18 May 2025Gaza ash Shamaliyah governorate, Gaza StripGovernment of Israel; HamasState-based101010
18 May 2025Gaza StripGovernment of Israel; HamasState-based696969
19 May 2025Khan Younis governorate, Gaza StripGovernment of Israel; PRCState-based10710
19 May 2025Gaza StripGovernment of Israel; HamasState-based131313
20 May 2025Deir al-Balah governorate, Gaza StripGovernment of Israel; HamasState-based131213
20 May 2025Deir al-Balah governorate, Gaza StripGovernment of Israel; HamasState-based151515
20 May 2025Gaza governorate, Gaza StripGovernment of Israel; HamasState-based131144
20 May 2025Gaza ash Shamaliyah governorate, Gaza StripGovernment of Israel; HamasState-based141414
21 May 2025Gaza ash Shamaliyah governorate, Gaza StripGovernment of Israel; HamasState-based111111
21 May 2025Khan Younis governorate, Gaza StripGovernment of Israel; HamasState-based131313
21 May 2025Gaza governorate, Gaza StripGovernment of Israel; HamasState-based101010
22 May 2025Deir al-Balah governorate, Gaza StripGovernment of Israel; HamasState-based101010
22 May 2025Gaza StripGovernment of Israel; HamasState-based111111
22 May 2025Gaza ash Shamaliyah governorate, Gaza StripGovernment of Israel; HamasState-based161616
23 May 2025Khan Younis governorate, Gaza StripGovernment of Israel; HamasState-based101010
23 May 2025Deir al-Balah governorate, Gaza StripGovernment of Israel; HamasState-based101010
23 May 2025Khan Younis governorate, Gaza StripGovernment of Israel; HamasState-based111111
23 May 2025Gaza StripGovernment of Israel; HamasState-based131313
26 May 2025Gaza governorate, Gaza StripGovernment of Israel; HamasState-based363136
26 May 2025Gaza ash Shamaliyah governorate, Gaza StripGovernment of Israel; HamasState-based191919
29 May 2025Deir al-Balah governorate, Gaza StripGovernment of Israel; HamasState-based232325
29 May 2025Gaza governorate, Gaza StripGovernment of Israel; HamasState-based101010
29 May 2025Gaza governorate, Gaza StripGovernment of Israel; HamasState-based131313
30 May 2025Khan Younis governorate, Gaza StripGovernment of Israel; HamasState-based141414

Actors, as UCDP names them

Names as UCDP writes them.

Table 2. Gaza Strip: actors, as UCDP names them, in the events of May 2025, in name order
Name, as UCDP writes itEventsEstimated deaths in these events
Government of Israel4252,096
Hamas4212,081
PIJ24
PRC211

An event has two sides, so one event can be in two rows. The deaths are the deaths in the events of a side. The table does not say which side caused a death.

All months

Table 3. Monthly reports of Gaza Strip, newest first: events and estimated deaths
MonthEventsEstimated deathsDataset
September 202693P128PCandidate Events
August 202658P98PCandidate Events
July 202688P174PCandidate Events
June 202671P126PCandidate Events
May 202661P118PCandidate Events
April 202665P132PCandidate Events
March 202642P87PCandidate Events
February 202661P110PCandidate Events
January 202668P153PCandidate Events
December 20253055GED
November 202547115GED
October 2025145656GED
September 20253882,026GED
August 20253561,710GED
July 20254672,461GED
June 20253471,919GED
May 20254252,096GED
April 20253381,291GED
March 20252331,084GED
February 20253450GED
January 2025245879GED
December 20242821,346GED
November 20242911,419GED
October 20242572,012GED
September 20242411,006GED
August 20242681,446GED

P Preliminary. The figure is from UCDP Candidate Events, and UCDP revises these events. Search engines list a report of a month in the last 12 months that has 30 or more events. The other reports stay online and ask search engines not to list them.

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ConflictStats. Gaza Strip, Israel and Palestine: events and estimated deaths in May 2025. https://conflictstats.com/country/israel-and-palestine/gaza-strip/month/2025-05/. Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program, UCDP GED 26.1 and UCDP Candidate Events 26.0.9. Data through .

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