The health ministry in Gaza has said that the death toll from the conflict with Israel had reached 47,317, 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 11 bodies in the past 24 hours — nine bodies recovered after the truce, and two new fatalities.

It did not specify how the new deaths occurred.

The ministry said the fighting had also left 111,494 people wounded.

Some Palestinians died from wounds inflicted before the ceasefire, with the health system in the territory largely destroyed by more than 15 months of fighting and bombardment.

The ministry again reiterated its appeal for Palestinians to submit information about dead or missing people to help update its records.