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Nearly 40,000 and counting: The struggle to keep track of Gaza deaths

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A victim of Israeli bombardment is rushed into Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip on August 7, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas militant group. [AFP]

With much of Gaza reduced to rubble by 10 months of war, counting the dead has become a challenge for the Hamas-run territory's health ministry, as the death toll nears 40,000.

Israel has repeatedly questioned the credibility of the daily figures put out by the ministry and US President Joe Biden did so too in the early stages of the war.

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