Survey of MSF staff and families in Gaza finds almost half of people killed are children

The survey, run by MSF’s epidemiological arm, Epicentre, covered 2,523 people (MSF colleagues and their family members) between October 2023 and March 2025. The survey results showed that of the people who were alive on October 7, 2023, more than 2 percent had since died and 7 percent had been injured. Furthermore, three-quarters of the deaths were due to war injuries, the vast majority of those from blasts. Forty-eight percent of the people who died from blast injuries among our colleagues’ households were children; 40 percent were under 10 years old.