In a single situation report of 1 November 2023, WHO reports both tolls with their sources named: the Gaza figures attributed to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, and approximately 1,400 Israelis and foreign nationals killed, about 5,400 injured and 240 held hostage, attributed to the Israeli authorities.

1400 Israelis and foreign nationals killed, per the Israeli authorities — estimate · as of 2023-11-01

What the source says, word for word

According to Israeli authorities, ~1400 Israelis and foreign nationals have been killed, ~5,400 injured and 240 being held hostage since the hostilities started.

Where to look

Situation Report, Issue 10, overview section

How the source established it

WHO situation report compiling figures from named sources. For Gaza it cites the Ministry of Health (approximately 41.5% children, 45% female, 55% male of those killed); for Israel it cites the Israeli authorities.

What the source does not claim

Every figure in this report is attributed, and WHO establishes none of them itself. They are the counts of two parties, relayed by a UN agency, and the agency says so.

Situation Report, Issue 10, overview section

The Israeli figures are given as approximations by the source itself ("~1400", "~5,400"). A tilde is a qualification and travels with the figure.

same sentence

Who counted

Both counts come from parties to the conflict — the Palestinian Ministry of Health on one side, the Israeli authorities on the other — and the same UN agency relays both, naming each. Neither is an independent verification of the other.

Provenance and verification — where this document came from, and what we could not check ourselves

The situation report was opened on emro.who.int on 19 September 2026. That site's robots file names and forbids GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, Bytespider and CCBot; it does not name us, and this path is not among the 15 it disallows.
Every government source is marked as a party's position, on all sides — the Palestinian Ministry of Health and the State Comptroller of Israel alike. Applying that to one side only would end the registry.

One document, two parties' figures, each named. Nothing is added here, nothing is compared, and neither toll is placed against the other.

Entry whoboth-2023-001 · record who-2023-003 · status published

Document	Gaza Hostilities 2023 / 2026 — Emergency Situation Report, Issue 10, 1 November 2023 1
Published	2023-11-01
Address	https://www.emro.who.int/images/stories/palestine/WHO_oPt_Sitrep_10.pdf
Archived copy	2023-11-05
Access	primary
Period covered	2023-10-07 → 2023-11-01
Corroboration	single-source