People walk amid collapsed buildings along Saftawi street in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on February 5, 2025, AFP.
A ceasefire in Gaza agreed between Hamas and Israel has ushered in a fragile peace since January 19.
But the number of those killed by Israeli forces, as published by Gaza's health ministry, continues to rise every day as bodies discovered under the rubble are identified or people die from earlier wounds. During the past 24 hours, 31 further deaths were recorded by the ministry.
A study published in early January in the British medical journal The Lancet estimated the death toll during the first nine months of the Israeli war on Gaza was about 40 percent higher than the figures recorded by the Gaza Ministry of Health.
Since the start of the Israeli war on Gaza, access to the territory for foreign journalists has been prohibited by Israel except those embedded with military units for brief excursions.
This has only left Gazan journalists to document the Israeli atrocities committed in the 15-month war on the territory.
*This was edited by Ahram Online.
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