A Palestinian boy weeps outside the Nasser hospital after Israeli forces targeted the northeastern district of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on July 24, 2024. AFP
"Since the beginning of the Israeli ground invasion of the eastern part of Khan Younis province, the civil defence and medical teams have recovered approximately 300 bodies of martyrs, many of them decomposed," agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP.
The Israeli military launched the assault on July 22 as its bloodiest-ever war and siege of the Gaza Strip approach 10 months.
Last week, it said troops had retrieved the bodies of five Israelis from the area.
They had been killed during the Hamas offensive on October 7 and their bodies taken back to Gaza, according to the military.
That says something in Gaza where Israel's relentless bombardment and ground invasion have killed more than 39,000 people, mostly women and children, according to Gaza's health ministry.
An analysis published by The Lancet medical journal, says the actual Palestinian death toll in Gaza could exceed 186,000 people.
The brutal assault has also wounded more than 89,000 Palestinians, while an Israeli siege has pushed more than half a million to the brink of starvation.
*This story was edited by Ahram Online
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