A man mourns over the bodies of victims of an Israeli strike in Gaza City at Ahli Arab Hospital, also known as the Baptist Hospital. AFP
The ministry said at least 109,571 people have been wounded in more than 15 months of the Israeli war on Gaza on October 7, 2023.
The Ministry of Health added 499 deaths to its death toll on Saturday, specifying they have now completed the data and confirmed identities on files whose information was incomplete.
A source in the ministry's data collection department told AFP that all the 499 additional deaths were from the past several months.
A study published Friday by the British medical journal The Lancet estimated that the death toll in Gaza during the first nine months of the Israel-Hamas war was around 40 per cent higher than recorded by the health ministry.
The new peer-reviewed study used data from the ministry, an online survey and social media obituaries, but only counted deaths from traumatic injuries. It did not include those from a lack of health care or food, or the thousands of missing believed to be buried under rubble.
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