Israel–Palestine–Lebanon

Israel's Defense Ministry says 1,318 security personnel have been killed since the war began

DEVELOPMENT
Location
Israel
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Israel
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In a post published on 4 October 2026 at about 23:30 UTC, @TimesofIsrael reported that Israel's Defense Ministry had released updated figures stating that 1,318 security personnel have been killed since the outbreak of the war, in a post framed around three years since the 7 October 2023 attack, and it linked the outlet's own liveblog entry. The post gives no release date separate from its publication, no breakdown by service or year, and no named official quoted; it carries one image whose content the post does not describe. The figure is the Defense Ministry's own, conveyed through the outlet, and no independent count was read here. Because the post dates neither the figure's cutoff nor the release, only the publication day is recorded.

Why it matters

It records an official cumulative loss figure for Israeli security personnel, which is material to how the scale of that loss is described even though the figure covers the whole war since October 2023.

  • Fatalities: Best 1318 people · Confidence: Unknown · Evidence: Times of Israel: 1,318 security personnel have been killed since Oct 7 2023, Defense Ministry · Cumulative figure for security personnel since the war began, as reported by the outlet from the Defense Ministry.

Verification: unverified

Evidence: Times of Israel: 1,318 security personnel have been killed since Oct 7 2023, Defense Ministry

Outlet post relaying an official Defense Ministry figure, with no named official, no breakdown, no cutoff date and an undescribed image; the figure was not independently confirmed here.