The website published the data to mark 700 days since Israel's genocide against the Palestinians. Tel Aviv has been keeping the true toll of its human losses secret and has imposed strict censorship on publication, suggesting the reported numbers are likely to rise.
The website stated that 1,923 Israelis have been killed since October 7, 2023, including 900 soldiers, noting that 456 of them were killed during ground battles in the Gaza Strip.
Regarding the announced death toll, Walla reported that 29,485 Israelis were injured, including 6,218 soldiers.
More than 143,000 Israelis were forced to leave the settlements adjacent to Gaza and the northern border with Lebanon as a result of clashes with Hezbollah, which escalated into a full-scale war in September 2024, leading to a ceasefire agreement the following November.
The Walla news website reported that more than 37,500 rockets and mortar shells were fired at Israel from Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and Iran.
He added, "The issue of the kidnapped Israelis (prisoners in Gaza) has become a tragic symbol of the war and a source of popular and political pressure. There are 48 kidnapped Israelis, and it is estimated that fewer than 20 of them are still alive."
"Netanyahu's war of survival"
In this context, Israeli officials hold Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responsible for the continuation of the war. Israeli military analyst Amos Harel said that Netanyahu is unsympathetic to the prisoners in the Gaza Strip and is focused solely on his own political survival.
"Netanyahu is focused solely on political survival: how he can stay in power and out of prison," Harel added in an article he wrote in the Hebrew newspaper Haaretz.
He continued: "Those who work closely with Netanyahu have long been convinced that he has lost all sense of the plight of the hostages and their families."
Regarding the occupation of Gaza City, Harel said, "It is not certain that it will develop into a sustained, long-term campaign culminating in the capture of the city and the defeat of Hamas, as his (Netanyahu's) political base currently hopes."
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For his part, former Mossad chief Yossi Cohen said that Netanyahu is responsible for everything before, during, and after the events of October 7, 2023.
Cohen, who headed Mossad from 2016 to 2021 and is currently being touted as a candidate to succeed Netanyahu, said in an interview with the Hebrew newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth: "I haven't spoken to Netanyahu for a year and a half. He is responsible for everything that happened on October 7, 2023."
In turn, the leader of the Israeli opposition Democratic Party, Yair Golan, renewed his call on Friday for the return of the detainees from Gaza and an end to the war, which he indicated was now serving to keep Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in office.
"The war has become a war of survival for Netanyahu, rather than one of returning the kidnapped (prisoners) and securing Israel," Golan said in a post on the X company's platform.
Golan added that the Netanyahu government "is trying to claim that this is psychological warfare, but the survival of Guy Gilboa Dalal is heartbreaking and highlights the urgent need to bring everyone back," he said.
Israeli officials considered the attack the greatest security, military, intelligence, and political failure for Tel Aviv, and called on Netanyahu to take responsibility for the failure to repel the attack.
Several Israeli military, security, and political officials have claimed responsibility for the failure to repel the Hamas attack, but Netanyahu has so far rejected this claim and insisted on continuing the genocide in Gaza.
There are no elections on the horizon in Israel, as Netanyahu has refused to hold them. The current government was formed in late 2022, and by law, its term extends until the end of 2026, unless early elections are held.
Since October 7, 2023, Israel, with American support, has been committing genocide in Gaza, including killing, starvation, destruction, and displacement, ignoring international calls and orders from the International Court of Justice to halt it.
The Israeli genocide left 64,231 Palestinians dead, 161,583 wounded, most of them children and women, more than 9,000 missing, hundreds of thousands displaced, and a famine that killed 370 Palestinians, including 131 children.
