Death toll surpasses 69,000 as more bodies found in Gaza’s devastation
Nearly a month after the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel, authorities in Gaza continue to recover bodies amid widespread destruction using limited equipment and resources.
The Health Ministry in Gaza said earlier that the total number of people killed in the Strip since October 7, 2023, has risen to 69,169 after more of the dead were identified and more bodies recovered.
The ministry said 284 additional people were recently added to the cumulative total after their identities were verified.
Over the past three days, 10 bodies were brought to Gaza hospitals – nine retrieved from under the rubble and one newly killed – along with six injured, the ministry added.
A large number of Palestinians remain missing in the vast destruction from Israel’s war, it said.
A man sits on the rubble of a destroyed building in Jabalia, northern Gaza
Israeli army says it killed two Palestinians who crossed Gaza’s ‘yellow line’
The Israeli military says it shot at two people whom it accused of crossing the yellow line and approaching Israeli soldiers operating in northern Gaza, killing one of them.
Separately, the army said it killed another Palestinian in southern Gaza, who it said had crossed the yellow line and “posed an immediate threat” to its troops.
Israel has continued to fire at Palestinians – including families – who approach the demarcation line, an invisible boundary established under the first phase of the ceasefire.
Israeli troops have moved behind the yellow line, where satellite images show that they hold about 40 active military posts, but Palestinians say it is impossible for them to know where exactly the boundary is – opening them up to deadly dangers.
Israel remains in control more than half of Gaza’s territory.
Palestinian child killed in Gaza after Israeli explosive detonates
Nasser Hospital has announced that a Palestinian child was killed after an explosive device left behind by Israeli forces in the city of Khan Younis detonated.
Unexploded military ordnance pose serious risks to Palestinians across Gaza as they try to return to homes and neighbourhoods destroyed during Israel’s two-year bombardment.
Mahmoud Basal, a spokesperson for the Palestinian Civil Defence, told Al Jazeera last month that Israel dropped at least 200,000 tonnes of explosives on the territory, with roughly 70,000 tonnes failing to detonate.
Gaza rescuer sends ‘prayers and peace’ to Sudan
Mohammed Abu Loay, a Palestinian civil defence worker in Gaza, has shared a video expressing support for people in war-torn Sudan.
“It’s heartbreaking,” Abu Loay said of the situation in el-Fasher, the city in Sudan’s western Darfur region that has seen mass killings and displacement since it fell to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) last month.
“Our hearts are with you,” he said.
