No end to Gaza misery as death toll crosses 52,000

Hospitals in the Gaza Strip received the remains of 51 Palestinians killed in Israeli airstrikes in the past 24 hours, the local Health Ministry said on Sunday, bringing the Palestinian death toll from the 18-month-old Israel-Hamas war to 52,243.

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The overall death toll includes nearly 700 bodies for which the documentation process was recently completed, the ministry said in its latest update.

The daily toll includes bodies retrieved from the rubble after earlier strikes.

Israeli strikes killed another 17 people after the ministry's update.

Eight of them, including three children and two women, were killed in a strike on a tent in the southern city of Khan Younis, according to Nasser Hospital.

A strike in the central city of Deir Al Balah killed four people, according to Al Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, and another on a tent there killed four children and a man, the hospital said.

Gaza’s Health Ministry says women and children make up most of the Palestinian deaths. It says another 117,600 people have been wounded in the war.

The overall tally includes 2,151 dead and 5,598 wounded since Israel resumed the war last month.

The overall tally includes 2,151 dead and 5,598 wounded since Israel resumed the war last month.