Gaza death toll climbs above 66,000 as Netanyahu prepares to meet Donald Trump

Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed at the UN General Assembly on Friday to ‘finish the job’ against Hamas (Richard Drew/AP)

More than 66,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Israel-Hamas war, Gaza’s Health Ministry has said, a day before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu heads to the White House for talks with US President Donald Trump on halting the ongoing offensive in Gaza.

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.