Washington Post publishes names of many of the 18,500 children killed in Gaza.

Experts say the data is reliable and probably an undercount of the true death toll.

Jul 30, 2025

Today The Washington Post published a large number of names (and some photos) of children killed during Israel’s war in Gaza. The database comes from the Gaza Ministry of Health, but as the Post pointed out, its figures are almost certainly a significant undercount (a study published in The Lancet last January came to the same conclusion.)

The story was put together by three Washington Post journalists and a journalist based in Gaza. The paper deserves commendation for this major effort.

I know there are some who still think that the death count is nothing more than Hamas propaganda. The Post story comments on that as well:

Though it is impossible to capture every death, Gaza’s Health Ministry is doing “unusually high-quality real-time casualty recording,” said Michael Spagat, an economics professor at the University of London and chair of Every Casualty Counts, an international charity focused on documenting the casualties of armed conflict.
“They are trying to be really careful and rigorous and are constantly trying to improve the list,” he said.

Interspersed among the list of names, the Post included photographs and descriptions where they were available. I have included above and below the first five of these.

Also today, The Guardian published an opinion piece by the executive director of the Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem, entitled “I lead a top Israeli human rights group. Our country is committing genocide.”

There really are no more doubts. There are only lies, denial, and complicity. As the truth continues to emerge, the distance between these responses grows ever smaller.