<article data-history-node-id="431073" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-death-toll-rises-68872" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-death-toll-rises-68872" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Gaza death toll rises to 68,872</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>The death toll in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the Israeli genocide in October 2023 has risen to 68,872, the Palestinian health ministry said on Tuesday. At least 170,677 others have been wounded.</p> <p>Four bodies, including one that was recovered from under the rubble and three that were recently killed, were brought to hospitals in Gaza over the past day.&nbsp;</p> <p>Since the ceasefire went into effect on 11 October, at least 240 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces and a further 607 wounded.&nbsp;</p> </div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="429676" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-media-office-says-death-toll-rises-amid-continuing-israeli-strikes" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-media-office-says-death-toll-rises-amid-continuing-israeli-strikes" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Gaza death toll rises as Israeli strikes continue, says media office</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>The Gaza media office on Saturday slammed Israel for continuing its "brutal aggression against the Palestinian people" despite the US President Donald Trump's call to halt the attacks on Gaza.</p> <p>The Israeli army is&nbsp;"openly committing massacres" as it carried out more than 93 air and artillery strikes&nbsp;on areas densely populated with displaced civilians since dawn today, the office said.</p> <p>At least 70 people, including women and children, were killed in the attacks, including 47 people in Gaza City alone, according to the statement.</p> <p>"It confirms that the occupation is ignoring all international calls for calm and insisting on continuing the systematic killing of civilians and the destruction of life in the Gaza Strip," the office said.</p> </div> </div> </article>

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<article data-history-node-id="428897" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/al-shifa-hospital-director-devastated-receive-remains-brother-and-sister" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/al-shifa-hospital-director-devastated-receive-remains-brother-and-sister" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Al-Shifa hospital director 'devastated' to receive remains of brother and sister-in-law</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>While on duty, the&nbsp;director of al-Shifa hospital received the bodies of two victims killed in an Israeli strike earlier on Saturday - his brother and sister-in-law.&nbsp;</p> <p>"I was shocked and devastated to see the bodies of my brother and his wife," Mohammed Abu Salmiya, who was in the&nbsp;emergency department of the healthcare complex at the time, told AFP.&nbsp;</p> <p>"Anything is possible now, as you receive your dearest ones as martyrs or wounded," he said. "The occupation's crimes continue, and the number of martyrs keeps rising."</p> </div> </div> </article>