Ethiopia's war in Tigray killed around 518,000 people in two years, roughly ten times the rate of the war in Gaza, and the General Assembly never convened over it. Three of the eleven emergency sessions it has ever convened concern Israel. Gaza's dead are counted here at the Hamas-run ministry's own maximum, 73,317, fighters included, and set beside every other war on earth.
On 7 October 2023, Hamas killed about 1,200 people in Israel and dragged 251 back to Gaza as hostages. It was the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust. The war that followed has killed, by the count of the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza, 73,317 people.
That ministry does not separate fighters from civilians. Israel says it has killed roughly 22,000 to 24,000 of them. An investigation by the Guardian and +972 Magazine, working from a leaked Israeli military database, named 8,900 dead fighters as of May 2025 and argued the true civilian share is far higher. That partial count only cross-referenced names already inside the leaked file; its own authors called it a floor, not a ceiling, and it stops in May 2025. Israel's intelligence assessment covers fighters the leak never captured. Neither number is final, which is exactly why this page uses the ceiling, not the floor, for its own case. Every chart below uses the full 73,317, the largest number any party to this war claims, because the arithmetic does not need shaving to make its point.
Look down the list of the dead again and notice something the marches never mention. The overwhelming majority of those killed in the world's current wars are Muslims. They are being killed in Syria by Assad's army, in Sudan by the Rapid Support Forces, in Yemen by the Houthis and a Saudi coalition, in the Sahel and Nigeria and Somalia by al-Qaeda and Islamic State affiliates, in Congo by an Islamic State franchise that hunts Christian villagers.
And in Iran, the regime that arms Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis spent the winter shooting its own teenagers in the street. Monitors have named nearly seven thousand of the dead and hold eleven thousand more cases they cannot verify, because Tehran cut the entire country off from the internet, the longest such blackout ever recorded, and keeps access censored to this day. Monitors have now named 7,007 of the dead, 236 of them children, and hold another 11,744 cases they cannot verify. Doctors' networks reaching the outside world on smuggled Starlink terminals, and two officials inside Iran's own Ministry of Health, put the real figure at twenty to thirty thousand.
The forensics are what settle it. Amnesty analysed footage from one overflow morgue at Kahrizak and counted 205 separate body bags. The Guardian and the Iranian fact-checking outfit Factnameh obtained 75 X-rays and CT scans smuggled out of a hospital and had them read by medical and ballistics experts: point-blank shotgun wounds, one chest carrying 174 metal pellets, and a pattern across independent doctors of deliberate shots to the eyes, the heart and the genitals. At the historic bazaar in Rasht, security forces set the building alight, blocked the exits and shot the people running out. Families were billed for the bullets used on their children. And Khamenei himself gave the order on 9 January to crush the protests by any means necessary, on a model his own officials named: Tiananmen.
The internet went dark that same day and stayed dark longer than any national shutdown ever recorded anywhere on earth, past two thousand hours, with possession of a satellite terminal made a capital offence. In the doctors' own words, the machinery was built "not only to suppress protest, but to suppress memory." The same regime hanged 1,639 people in 2025 by one count and over two thousand by another, the most since 1989. The Human Rights Council has passed sixteen resolutions about Iran in twenty years. It has passed a hundred and twelve about Israel. The full account of the uprising.
Not one of those wars has produced an emergency session of the General Assembly. Not one produced a genocide case that survived a jurisdiction hearing. Not one filled a campus with tents. The outrage is not tracking Muslim suffering. Muslim suffering on a far larger scale is happening right now, in silence.
What the outrage tracks is the one war in which the killing is done by Jews.
Where estimates conflict we say so and show the range rather than averaging rivals into a number nobody published. Found an error? Check the work and tell us.