Gaza hospitals receive 122 bodies in past 24 hours as death toll hits 47,283

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The Gaza health ministry has said that the death toll from the conflict with Israel had reached 47,283, with numbers rising in spite of a ceasefire as new bodies are found under the rubble, AFP reports.

The ministry said hospitals in the Gaza Strip had received 122 bodies in the past 24 hours, including 120 that “were recovered from under the rubble”, as well as 306 injured people, bringing the total number of injured to 111,472.

It did not specify how the other two died.

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