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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dalvinder45" data-source="post: 226467" data-attributes="member: 26009"><img src="https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/480/cpsprodpb/57cc/live/6eae03f0-07d2-11f0-8aad-d30c42e87de8.jpg.webp" alt="Getty Images Woman holding a baby in the middle of ruins following an attack, with others comforting each other or looking through the rubble" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Getty ImagesMuch of Gaza has been destroyed during the war. More than 50,000 Palestinians have been killed during Israel's military campaign in Gaza, the territory's Hamas-run health ministry has announced. That number - 50,021 - equates to about 2.1% of the 2.3 million pre-war population of the territory, or around 1 in 46 people. A total of 113,274 others had been injured in the same period, the health ministry said.Figures from the Gaza Ministry of Health (MoH) have been widely used throughout the war and are seen as reliable by the United Nations (UN) and international institutions. But Israel has consistently disputed data published by Gaza's authorities.International journalists, including the BBC, are blocked by Israel from entering Gaza independently, so are unable to verify figures from either side. The figures released by the MoH for the number of people killed do not differentiate between civilians and fighters.In November, the UN's Human Rights Office said its analysis showed close to 70% of veified victims over a six-month period were women and children.  In January, The Lancet medical journal published a study which suggested the  death toll could in fact  be substantially higher than official figures reported by MoH - by up to 41%.The MoH also reported on Sunday at least 39 deaths in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of people killed to 673 since Israel resumed its military operations in the territory on Tuesday.</blockquote>

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