Tag: tolls
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How does Gaza’s Ministry of Health calculate death tolls?
[ad_1] JERUSALEM – How many Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip since the war between Israel and Hamas started? With Israel besieging and bombing territory at a scale never seen before, arriving at a precise answer isn’t easy. Cell service is spotty. Internet and power are out. Airstrikes have pulverized roads…
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Israel bombards Gaza in battle with Hamas as death tolls on both sides of war rise
[ad_1] The death toll in the Israel-Hamas war continued to climb on Tuesday, four days after the Hamas militant group launched a surprise assault on Israel from Gaza — leading Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to declare, “We are at war.” President Biden called the assault —which claimed more than 1,200 lives, including 14 Americans—…