Palestinian death toll in Israel-Hamas war climbs above 66,000

Patients receive care at a field hospital run by the British humanitarian medical NGO UK-Med in Muwasi, near Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip (Jehad Alshrafi/AP)

More than 66,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Israel-Hamas war, Gaza’s Health Ministry has said.

The ministry said in its daily report on Sunday that the death toll has now climbed to 66,005, with a further 168,162 injured since Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack which sparked the war.