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Health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza says war toll at 47,283

By AFP | Jan. 23, 2025

**Palestinians react while human remains are retrieved from the rubble of buildings in a ruined neighbourhood of Gaza's southern city of Rafah on January 22, 2025.** [File, AFP]

The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said on Thursday the death toll from the war with Israel had reached 47,283, with numbers rising in spite of a ceasefire as new bodies are found under the rubble.

The ministry said hospitals in the Gaza Strip had received 122 bodies in the past 24 hours, including 120 that "were recovered from under the rubble", as well as 306 injured people, bringing the total number of injured to 111,472.

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