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Monday, March 4, 2024
Hamas-run health ministry says Gaza death toll passed 30,530

Palestinians inspect the debris of a house destroyed by an Israeli strike in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on March 4, 2024 (MOHAMMED ABED / AFP)
At least 30,534 Palestinians have been killed and 71,920 have been wounded in Gaza since October 7, the Hamas-run health ministry in the Strip 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 said it killed some 13,000 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.