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Thursday, February 29, 2024
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Thursday, February 29, 2024
Hamas-run health ministry says Gaza death toll exceeds 30,000
Palestinians walk in the Maghazi camp for Palestinian refugees, in the central Gaza Strip on February 27, 2024, amid the ongoing war between Israel and the Palestinian terror group Hamas. (AFP)
More than 30,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza since October 7, the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says in an early morning statement.
The figures provided by Hamas are unverified, don’t differentiate between civilians and combatants, and list all the fatalities as caused by Israel — including those killed as a consequence of terror groups’ own rocket misfires.
Israel has said it killed some 12,000 Hamas members in Gaza fighting, in addition to some 1,000 killed in Israel in the aftermath of the terror group’s October 7 invasion and onslaught.
