Hamas-run health ministry raises Gaza death toll to 34,097

Rescue workers search for survivors under the rubble of a building hit in overnight Israeli strike in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on April 21, 2024 (MOHAMMED ABED / AFP)
Rescue workers search for survivors under the rubble of a building hit in overnight Israeli strike in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on April 21, 2024 (MOHAMMED ABED / AFP)

At least 34,097 Palestinians have been killed and 76,980 injured in the Gaza Strip since the start of the war on October 7, the enclave’s Hamas-run health ministry says.

The figures cannot be independently verified and do not differentiate between combatants and civilians. They include some 13,000 Hamas gunmen Israel says it has killed in battle. Israel also says it killed some 1,000 terrorists inside Israel on October 7.

Two hundred and sixty IDF soldiers have been killed in the army’s Gaza ground operation.

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