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Saturday, April 27, 2024
Hamas-run health ministry says Gaza death toll reached 34,388

People check the damage in a house destroyed by overnight Israeli strike in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on April 27, 2024. (AFP)
At least 34,388 Palestinians have been killed and 77,437 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 some 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 261 IDF soldiers have been killed in the army’s Gaza ground operation.