Thousands of Palestinians who had previously been listed as missing are now presumed dead, a Gazan official told a press gathering Monday at the mostly destroyed al-Shifa Hospital.
With thousands more Palestinians’ bodies still trapped under the rubble, 248 deaths have been added so far to the official toll from Israel’s attacks, Sharon Zhang reports.
The fatality figures started to stall in the spring, around the time Israel completed its destruction of Gaza’s hospitals and kidnapped much of the enclave’s medical personnel, writes Jonathan Cook.