A social media post has alleged that more Christians have been killed in Nigeria than Palestinians in Gaza since the start of 2025.
The post was published on X(formerly Twitter) on Saturday.
“This year, more Christians have been killed in Nigeria than Palestinian civilians in Gaza,” the X user identified as Eyal Yakoby tweeted to his 181,500 followers.
The post has since garnered over 828,000 views, 32,000 likes, 9,200 reposts, 1,200 bookmarks, and over 800 comments.
But how true is the claim?
HOW MANY PALESTINIAN CIVILIANS HAVE BEEN KILLED IN GAZA?
As of August 17, the death toll in the Gaza Strip had risen to 61,944, according to WAFA, a Palestinian news agency.
The report said the majority of the casualties since the war began on October 7, 2023, have been children and women.
On August 16, the day Yakoby said the 2025 Christian deaths in Nigeria were above the total number of killed Palestinian civilians in Gaza, WAFA pegged the death toll in the strip at 61,897.
This year alone (from January to August), 16,223 Palestinians have been reported killed, according to the WHO’s Health Cluster unified dashboard.
Over 70 percent were women and children.
HOW MANY CHRISTIANS HAVE BEEN KILLED IN NIGERIA THIS YEAR?
According to a report by the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety) — a pro-Christian civil rights group with a penchant for promoting sectional interests — at least 7,087 Christians have been killed in 2025.
The report covers the period from January 1 to August 10.
Intersociety has a track record of treating most killings in Nigeria as religious. Its reports primarily attribute killings to Fulani herders, jihadist groups, and other extremist organisations.
CONCLUSION
The findings show that the fatality figures, when subjected to comparative analysis, do not align with Yakoby’s claim.
Since the war began in Gaza, more than 60,000 Palestinians have been killed.
On a year-by-year basis, over 16,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza in 2025 — more than double the number of Christians said to have been killed in Nigeria this year.
VERDICT
The claim that more Christians have been killed in Nigeria than Palestinian civilians in Gaza this year does not align with available data. Despite being heavily pro-Christian and sometimes sectarian, Intersociety’s purported Christian deaths are significantly lower than the WHO’s tally of Palestinian deaths this year alone.
