The death toll of the Israeli genocide in Gaza has risen  to 72,585

The  death toll from the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza since October 2023 has risen to 72,585 after  the  Palestinian Ministry of Health announced that 17 Palestinians were killed in the past 48 hours, at a time when the Israeli army continues its violations of the ceasefire agreement concluded in October 2025.

In its statistical report, on Saturday, April 25, 2026,  the ministry said that  the Gaza Strip's hospitals "received 17 martyrs and 32 injured during the past two days, without clarifying the circumstances of their fall, noting that Israeli violations of the agreement have resulted in 809 martyrs and 2267 injuries since its signing.

Thus, the total number of victims of the war that Israel started on October 8, 2023, with the support of the United States, rises to 72,585 martyrs and 172,370 wounded, in one of the bloodiest wars in modern history, which left a massive destruction that affected 90 percent of the civilian infrastructure, and the United Nations estimated the cost of its reconstruction at about $70 billion.

Escalating settler attacks in Qalqilya, Nablus and Hebron

In the West Bank, the Israeli army and settlers continued their escalating attacks, as army forces stormed the town of al-Mughayyir, northeast of Ramallah, on Saturday, and carried out raids and searches before arresting a citizen, according to local sources.

These developments come days after clashes took place in the town after settlers stormed its outskirts and opened fire on residents, killing two people and injuring others.

In Hebron, Israeli soldiers imposed severe restrictions on the movement of Palestinians within the neighborhoods of Haret Jaber, Al-Salaima and Wad Al-Husayn, preventing them from moving, while settlers launched their livestock in the vicinity of citizens' homes in Khirbet al-Fakhit in Masafer Yatta, causing damage to residents' property and livelihoods.

Settlers also released their livestock in the plain of the town of Beit Furik, east of Nablus, causing damage to agricultural lands, while others attacked houses in the Al-Nagaim area, south of the town of Hajjah in Qalqilya governorate, and caused damage to his property.

Since October 2023, the West Bank has been witnessing a remarkable escalation in settler attacks and army incursions, as the Commission for Resistance to the Wall and Settlements documented 497 attacks during last March alone, which resulted in the death of 9 Palestinians. Since the beginning of the war, the army and settlers' attacks have also led to the death of 1,154 Palestinians and the injury of about 11,750, in addition to the arrest of about 22,000.

Israeli Writer: Denying the Genocide of Gaza Is Worse Than Denying the Holocaust

Australian-based Israeli writer Veronica Sherman described the genocide deniers in Gaza as "worse than Holocaust deniers," stressing that silence on what is happening in the Gaza Strip "is equivalent to supporting it."

 Sherman, 51, who served in the Israeli army until the age of 20, said in an interview with Anadolu Agency that she was part of a "culture of death and a killing machine" before she broke away from the Zionist ideology on which she grew up, whether Israeli or what is known as "Christian Zionism."

She explained that the turning point in her life began in 2014 when she saw photos of a Palestinian child in the rubble during an Israeli attack on Gaza, considering that moment "stopped everything" and made her reconsider everything she was raised on.

She said she tore up her Israeli passport page by page and then burned it during a protest event in Canberra in 2025 to express her rejection of what she described as "genocide" in Gaza, stressing that she feels a special connection to Jerusalem but sees herself as a "settlement that has stayed there unjustly."

Sherman believes that Zionism is "the most dangerous thing that threatens Jews" and that it represents a "culture of death" that targets not only Palestinians, but Jews as well, stressing that the images coming out of Gaza today are available to everyone, making it "more dangerous" to ignore them than Holocaust denial. I would have resisted for my family, my people, and my land."