Death toll in Gaza soars above 25,000 as Netanyahu seeks ‘complete victory’

Gaza’s Health Ministry said 25,105 Palestinians have been killed in the territory since October 7 (Leo Correa/AP)

The Palestinian death toll from the war between Israel and Hamas has soared past 25,000, the Health Ministry in the Gaza Strip has said, while the Israeli government appears far from achieving its goals of crushing the militant group and freeing more than 100 hostages.

The level of death, destruction and displacement from the war is without precedent in the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and Israeli officials say the fighting is likely to continue for several more months.