Gaza’s Ministry of Health reported the grim milestone in an update on Thursday.
According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, 46,006 Palestinians have died during the 16-month war. According to the Gaza authorities, 12 people, including three girls, were killed in the Israeli attacks on Thursday.
According to the ministry’s accounting, 109,378 people have been wounded, but do not separate them into civilians and combatants. According to the ministry, more than half of the dead are women and children. There is no independent confirmation of the accounting.
According to Israel, it has killed more than 17,000 fighters of Hamas and other extremist organizations in its military operations, but does not say what the figure is based on.
The war has leveled large areas of Gaza and driven 90 percent of the region’s 2.3 million inhabitants from their homes.
AP, Reuters