Gaza war death toll surpasses 70,000

The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza has disclosed that more than 70,000 people have been killed since the war between Israel and Hamas erupted more than two years ago.

The milestone comes as a fragile United States-brokered ceasefire largely holds, but with both sides accusing the other of violating the terms of the deal.

In a statement on Saturday, November 29, 2025, Gaza’s health ministry said the death toll from the war had risen to 70,100.

The ministry said since the ceasefire came into effect on October 10, 354 Palestinians had been killed by Israeli fire.

The ministry revealed that two bodies arrived at hospitals in the Gaza Strip in the past 48 hours, one of which had been recovered from beneath the rubble.

It noted that the spike from the last death toll was due to the fact that the data relating to 299 bodies had been processed and approved by the authorities.

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Despite the ceasefire, the Palestinian territory remains in a deep humanitarian crisis, AFP reported.

The Gaza war was sparked by Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attack on Israel, which resulted in the deaths of 1,221 people.
On that day, militants abducted 251 people into Gaza.

At the start of the latest ceasefire, militants were holding 20 living hostages and 28 bodies of deceased captives.

Hamas has since released all the living hostages and returned the remains of 26 dead hostages.

In exchange, Israel has released nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners in its custody and returned the bodies of hundreds of dead Palestinians.

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