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Hamas-run health ministry says Gaza death toll at 34,568
At least 34,568 Palestinians have been killed and 77,765 injured in Gaza since the start of the war sparked by Hamas’s October 7 onslaught, the Hamas-run health ministry in the Strip says.
The figures cannot be independently verified and include at least 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.
A total of 263 IDF soldiers have been killed in the army’s Gaza ground operation.