The Hamas-run health ministry in the Gaza Strip says in a 2 p.m. report that Gaza hospitals have received the body of one Palestinian killed by IDF gunfire over the past 24 hours, and the body of another person killed before that.
The statement does not identify the dead or say where they were killed.
Arabic media reported yesterday afternoon that a 15-year-old boy was killed by IDF gunfire in the Israeli-controlled side of the Gaza ceasefire line in the southern Strip’s Mawasi, near Khan Younis. The boy’s body was reportedly brought to Khan Younis’s Nasser Hospital.
The IDF has not commented on the reports.
According to the Hamas health ministry, Israel has killed 71,271 people in Gaza since the war was sparked by the Hamas-led onslaught of October 7, 2023, including 416 people killed amid the Gaza ceasefire since October 11.
The figures cannot be independently verified and do not distinguish between civilians and combatants.
Israel says it has killed over 22,000 combatants in Gaza as of August and another 1,600 terrorists inside Israel during the October 7 onslaught.
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