Local authorities add 14,000 people to the list, missing and assumed dead.
Authorities in Gaza have updated the number of deaths from the Israeli war on the enclave to 61,709, adding thousands of missing and now assume they are dead.
The head of the Gaza State Information Office said at a press conference that the bodies of 76 percent of Palestinians were killed in a conflict with the recovered and brought to medical centers. However, it is still believed that at least 14,222 people are trapped under ruins or in areas of inaccessible rescuers.
Speaking at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Maarouf salad told reporters that 17,881 children were among the fatal prologue, including 214 newborns.
“More than 2 million people have been forcibly displaced, some more than 25 times, in terrible conditions that lack basic services,” the official added, noting that 111,588 people were injured.
‘Homes have become cemeteries’
Updated numbers come in the middle a fragile truce between Israel and Hamas That last month, he stopped, at least temporarily, 15 months of genocide in the enclave, which followed the Hamas attack on southern Israel in October 2023, in which the armed group killed about 1,200 and took 250 people to Gaza as prisoners.
The break in the fight, which should continue until at least early March, gave space to Palestinian rescuers to reach parts of Gaza that they could not come before.
“Humanitarian and medical teams have moved from rescue to recovery missions,” said Tareq Abu Azs, Al Jazeera, reporting from Al-Rashid Street in Gaza, routes that many Palestinians move to head to their northern native cities.
“Hundreds of homes became cemeteries.”
Maarouf also noted a difficult path for health, humanitarian and media workers in the enclave. At least 1,155 medical staff, 205 journalists and 194 civil protection workers were killed during the Israeli attack.
Phase II talks
Negotiations will soon start, moving to the second phase of a three -phase interruption of fire. This provides for access to the constant end of the war.
Mediators Qatar, Egypt and the United States will open these conversations today, but if they cannot bring Israel and Hamas to the agreement, the struggles could continue in March.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Who is in Washington, DC And he plans to meet with President Donald Trump, under pressure is the ultimate right allies to shorten the tribute and teaching of the struggle.
Netanyahu, who together with other Israeli officials and Hamas leaders Wanted International Criminal Court For alleged war crimes, they said he and Trump would talk about “victory over Hamas, achieving all our hostages and dealing with the Iranian terrorist axis” in the Middle East.
