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Thursday, February 8, 2024
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Thursday, February 8, 2024
Hamas-run health ministry says Gaza death toll passed 27,800
Palestinians mourn at Al-Najjar hospital after relatives were killed in overnight Israeli strikes on Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on February 8, 2024 (Mahmud Hams / AFP)
At least 27,840 Palestinians have been killed and 67,317 have been wounded in Israeli strikes on Gaza since October 7, the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says.
The terror group’s figures are unverified, don’t differentiate between civilians and combatants, and list all the fatalities as caused by Israel — even those believed to have been caused by hundreds of misfired rockets or otherwise by Palestinian fire.
Israel has previously said it has killed some 10,000 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.
