Gaza Government Estimates Initial Direct Losses in 15 Vital Sectors at More Than $33 Billion During 2025

The Gaza government estimated the initial direct losses in 15 vital sectors during the year 2025 at more than $33 billion, amid the ongoing repercussions of Israel's genocide war against the Palestinians.

The government media office said on Wednesday, during the "Comprehensive Annual Update of Statistics for 2025," that "the initial direct losses in 15 vital sectors are estimated at more than $33 billion during 2025 amid the ongoing repercussions of the crime of genocide against our Palestinian people."

In the agriculture, livestock, and fisheries sector, it indicated that the maritime fishing sector was damaged 100 percent, alongside the destruction of more than 80 percent of agricultural lands out of 178,000 dunams.

It also noted the decline in areas planted with vegetables from 93,000 dunams to 4,000 dunams, the destruction of 1,000 agricultural wells, and 500 farms for cattle, sheep, and poultry.

In infrastructure and public facilities losses, the office spoke of the destruction of more than 700 water wells, 3,080 km of electricity networks, 400,000 linear meters of water networks, and 400,000 linear meters of sewage networks.

The Israeli army also destroyed more than two million linear meters of roads, 150 government headquarters, 250 sports and cultural facilities, and targeted 208 archaeological and historical sites.

The office noted that the Israeli army dropped more than 112,000 tons of explosives on the sector during 2025, alongside destroying nearly 90 percent of the urban infrastructure and seizing about 55 percent of the sector's area by military force.

In the health sector, 22 hospitals went out of service during 2025, and 211 ambulances were attacked by the Israeli army, in addition to destroying 23 vehicles belonging to civil defense.

Educationally, the Israeli army completely destroyed 30 educational institutions and partially destroyed 39, with 95 percent of the sector's schools damaged, and killed more than 1,000 students, 88 teachers, and 45 academics and researchers.

The Israeli aggression led to the complete destruction of 34 mosques, partial destruction of 100 mosques, targeting 3 churches multiple times, and destroying 21 cemeteries out of 60.

The Israeli army destroyed 106,400 residential units completely, 66,000 units severely unfit for habitation, and 41,000 units partially.

This resulted in the displacement of more than 213,000 families and forced displacement affecting nearly two million people, and targeting 87 shelter centers, according to the same source.

These massive losses occurred during 2025, amid continued Israeli violations of the ceasefire that came into effect on October 10, resulting in the killing of 415 Palestinians and injuring 1,152 others.

On October 8, 2023, Israel began a genocide in Gaza that lasted two years, with its death toll exceeding 71,000 killed and 171,000 injured Palestinians, alongside massive destruction with a reconstruction cost estimated by the United Nations at about $70 billion.