Palestinian death toll has reached 29,000, says Gaza health ministry

Palestinian activists carry posters, one reads ‘the siege is killing the children’ while protesting in front of the Egyptian embassy, in the West Bank city of Ramallah (Nasser Nasser/AP)

Gaza’s health ministry says more than 29,000 Palestinians have been killed in the territory since the start of the Israel-Hamas war.

The ministry in Hamas-ruled Gaza said on Monday that 107 bodies were brought to hospitals in the last 24 hours. That brings the total number of fatalities to 29,092 since the start of the war.