Hamas says Gaza death toll passes 31,000

Palestinians walk past the rubble of buildings hit in an Israeli strike in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip on March 10, 2024. (Mohammed Abed/AFP)
Palestinians walk past the rubble of buildings hit in an Israeli strike in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip on March 10, 2024. (Mohammed Abed/AFP)

The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says the Palestinian death toll in the Strip has reached at least 31,045.

The latest toll includes 85 fatalities over the past 24 hours, a ministry statement said, adding that 72,654 people have been wounded in Gaza since the war began on October 7, sparked by Hamas’s brutal massacre in southern Israel.

These figures cannot be independently verified, do not differentiate between civilians and combatants and also include hundreds killed by the terror group’s own misfired rockets.

The IDF says it has killed more than 13,000 Hamas terrorists in battle, plus some 1,000 gunmen inside Israel on October 7.

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