Hamas-run health ministry says Gaza death toll passed 29,100

Members of the Palestinian civil defense extinguish a fire in a building following Israeli strikes east of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on February 19, 2024 (SAID KHATIB / AFP)
Members of the Palestinian civil defense extinguish a fire in a building following Israeli strikes east of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on February 19, 2024 (SAID KHATIB / AFP)

At least 29,195 Palestinians have been killed and 69,170 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 said yesterday it has 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.

The announcement came after a Qatar-based official for the terror group claimed it had lost half that number — some 6,000 fighters — during the four-month-old conflict.

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