The IDF on Sunday published an extensive update on war statistics to date. These include some 9,000 Hamas terrorists killed; two of Hamas’s five brigade-level commanders eliminated; 19 battalion-level commanders killed of 24 battalions.
Despite those successes, Hamas’s top leadership in Gaza remains at large.
Previously, the IDF has said it killed around 1,500 Hamas terrorists in the South during the early days of the war to counter Hamas’s invasion. The estimated total number of Hamas forces has varied wildly from 40,000 pre-war to 25,000.
The IDF estimates Hamas wounded to be at least in the several thousand range.
Depending on the estimated total and some other factors, the IDF has killed, wounded, or arrested somewhere between one-third to more than 50% of Hamas’s forces.
Israeli, terror casualties in the North
Around 170 Hezbollah and Hamas-affiliated terrorists have been killed in the North. The IDF has also arrested 2,300, who have been interrogated by Unit 504. There have also been a total of 30,000 IDF attacks on Gaza and around 750 on Hezbollah or other terrorists in the North.
Since October 7, a total of 522 IDF soldiers have been killed in action, 188 of them since the ground invasion started.
A total of 2,536 IDF soldiers have been wounded, 1,476 lightly, 672 moderately, and 388 seriously.
The IDF said that Hamas has fired some 9,000 rockets into Israeli airspace from Gaza, while some 2,000 rockets fell short.
Besides Hamas, Hezbollah has fired some 2,000 rockets or anti-tank missiles into Israel from Lebanon and another 30 or so from Syria.
Some pre-war estimates said Hamas had around 15,000 rockets, but Palestinian Islamic Jihad also had several thousand rockets. It is hard to estimate how many rockets Hamas still has since the IDF has destroyed both rockets and launchers, making some rockets unusable. But IDF sources do not deny that Hamas may still possess thousands more rockets.
The IDF did not provide numbers for Israelis evacuated from their homes in the North and the South, but these numbers have varied between the low 100,000 range to 250,000.
The IDF has conducted 79,000 direct evacuation phone calls to Palestinians who did not evacuate when it had already dropped approximately 7.2 million leaflets warning them to evacuate, sent 13.7 evacuation warning text messages, and also 15 million recorded evacuation messages.
The IDF has facilitated the transfer of 7,653 trucks carrying humanitarian aid to Palestinians in Gaza which were inspected at the Nitzana and Rafiah crossings carrying 137,920 tons of cargo. The cargo has included: 3,950 food trucks with 82,330 tons of food and 1,151 trucks of shelter supplies with 16,630 tons of supplies.
The cargo has also included 1,007 trucks with 11,510 tons of medical supplies, 863 trucks of water carrying 17,320 tons, and another 682 miscellaneous trucks carrying 10,130 tons of unspecified cargo.
The IDF Home Front website has been visited 188 million times and has received 552,000 telephone calls.
Some 17,000 rocket alert sirens have sounded, leading to shelter in 450 new, fully protected spaces that have been erected, 1,000 makeshift medium protected areas that have been built, and 840 existing bomb shelters that have been renovated.