GAZA CITY: The toll within the war-worn geographical region rose on top of two,000 Monday, the health ministry aforementioned as a lot of individuals contusioned in over a month of fighting with the Israelis succumbed to their wounds.
According to a ministry statement, a complete of two,016 individuals were killed and another ten,196 wounded.
Among the dead were 541 youngsters, 250 ladies and ninety five senior men, it said.
The toll, that had stood at one,980, jumped up when variety of individuals died from their injuries in hospitals across geographical area, still as in Cairo and national capital wherever they'd been taken for treatment.
Medics additionally retrieved another body from underneath the junk within the battered Shejaiya district east of geographical area town, wherever it had lain for over 3 weeks, the statement aforementioned.
Separately, the Israeli army confirmed that 5 of sixty four troopers killed in combat had died as a results of “friendly fire”.
There was no immediate word on the circumstances of their deaths.
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