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Gaza Strip, Israel and Palestine: events and estimated deaths in January 2026

Monthly report of a regionDataset: UCDP Candidate Events, preliminaryData through

UCDP recorded 68 eventsP of organized violence in Gaza Strip, Israel and Palestine in January 2026. The best estimate of deaths in these events is 153P. The low estimate is 151 and the high estimate is 154P. UCDP counts 41P of these deaths as deaths of civilians. The count for December 2025 was 30 events.

The count for January 2025 was 245 events. The change from January 2025 to January 2026 is down 72 percentP. Among the 26 months with a report for Gaza Strip, Israel and Palestine, January 2026 has the 18th highest count of events. Gaza Strip, Israel and Palestine holds 87 percentP of the events that UCDP recorded in Israel and Palestine in January 2026. In January 2025, the share was 90 percent.

P Preliminary. The figure is from UCDP Candidate Events, and UCDP revises these events.

The report of the country for this month: Israel and Palestine, January 2026.

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.

The pages give counts and their sources. They give no travel, security or safety advice. A count of events is not a measure of danger.

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, January 2026: events with 10 or more estimated deaths (1 of 68 events), in the order of their dates
DatePlaceSides, as UCDP writes themType of violenceEstimated deathsPLowHigh
31 Jan 2026Gaza governorate, Gaza StripGovernment of Israel; HamasState-based171717

P Preliminary. The figure is from UCDP Candidate Events, and UCDP revises these events.

Actors, as UCDP names them

Names as UCDP writes them.

Table 2. Gaza Strip: actors, as UCDP names them, in the events of January 2026, in name order
Name, as UCDP writes itEventsEstimated deaths in these events
Government of Israel66P150P
Hamas66P142P
PIJ2P11P
The Popular Forces2P3P

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.

P Preliminary. The figure is from UCDP Candidate Events, and UCDP revises these events.

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 January 2026. https://conflictstats.com/country/israel-and-palestine/gaza-strip/month/2026-01/. Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program, UCDP GED 26.1 and UCDP Candidate Events 26.0.9. Data through .

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