On October 2, local time, World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stated that this round of Palestinian-Israeli conflict has resulted in more than 66,000 deaths in the Gaza Strip, 70% of whom are women and children, about 170,000 injuries, and thousands of others. People are missing. Among them, at least a quarter of the injured suffered severe trauma and needed immediate and continuous rehabilitation.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus emphasized that medical and humanitarian relief workers, including WHO staff, stuck to the front line of Gaza during the conflict, faced an extremely dangerous environment, and materials, food, transportation and fuel were extremely scarce. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus quoted the statistics of Gaza's health department as saying that nearly 1,800 medical workers and at least 543 rescue workers have been killed.