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KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip -- More than 69,000 Palestinians person been killed successful the Israel-Hamas warfare truthful far, Gaza wellness officials said Saturday, arsenic some sides completed the latest speech of bodies nether the presumption of the tenuous ceasefire.
The latest leap successful deaths occurred arsenic much bodies are recovered successful the devastated Gaza Strip since the ceasefire began connected Oct. 10, and arsenic different bodies are identified. The toll besides includes Palestinians killed by strikes that Israel says people remaining militants.
Israel connected Saturday returned the remains of different 15 Palestinians to Gaza, according to infirmary officials there, a time aft militants returned the remains of a hostage to Israel. He was identified arsenic Lior Rudaeff, according to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu 's office. The Hostages and Missing Families Forum said that Rudaeff was calved successful Argentina.
The exchanges are the cardinal portion of the ceasefire's archetypal phase, which requires that Hamas instrumentality each hostage remains arsenic rapidly arsenic possible. Families and supporters rallied again Saturday nighttime successful Tel Aviv for the instrumentality of all.
The truce is aimed astatine winding down the deadliest and astir destructive warfare ever betwixt Israel and the Palestinian militant group. It began with the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led onslaught connected confederate Israel that killed astir 1,200 radical and saw 251 taken hostage.
Also Saturday, Israeli settlers staged 2 attacks connected Palestinian farmers and others successful the occupied West Bank arsenic settler unit reaches caller highs during this year's olive harvest.
'I person not mislaid hope'
For each Israeli hostage returned, Israel has been releasing the remains of 15 Palestinians. Ahmed Dheir, manager of forensic medicine astatine Nasser Hospital successful the confederate metropolis of Khan Younis, said that the remains of 300 person present been returned, with 89 identified.
"We bash not person capable resources oregon the DNA to lucifer them with the martyrs' families," Dheir said. Unidentified ones volition beryllium buried successful batches.
Hopeful families looked into assemblage bags of decomposed remains. "Close it, it's not him," 1 household said.
"I ever travel here. I person not mislaid hope. I americium inactive waiting for him," said the parent of a missing boy, who did not springiness her name.
Gaza's Health Ministry said the fig of radical killed determination since the warfare began has risen to 69,169. The ministry, portion of the Hamas-run authorities and staffed by aesculapian professionals, maintains elaborate records viewed arsenic mostly reliable by autarkic experts.
Palestinians unreserved toward trucks carrying assistance from the World Food Programme (WFP) arsenic they thrust done Deir al-Balah successful cardinal Gaza, Saturday, Nov. 8, 2025.
(AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
The ministry said 284 radical were added to the full aft their identities were verified betwixt Oct. 31 and Nov. 7.
Over the past 3 days, 10 bodies were brought to Gaza hospitals - 9 retrieved from the rubble and 1 recently killed, the ministry said. Since the ceasefire began, 241 radical person been killed successful Gaza, it said.
It added that a ample fig of Palestinians stay missing.
Israel's subject connected Saturday said that soldiers killed 2 militants who had approached troops, 1 successful bluish Gaza and the different successful the south.
Israeli settler attack
Palestinian wellness officials said 11 radical were injured successful an onslaught by Israeli settlers successful the West Bank municipality of Beita, including journalists, medics, planetary activists and farmers. Activists and medics person flocked to this year's olive harvest to assistance Palestinian farmers safely scope their fields.
The U.N. humanitarian bureau reported much Israeli settler attacks connected Palestinians and their spot successful the West Bank successful October than successful immoderate different period since the bureau began keeping way successful 2006. There were implicit 260 attacks, the bureau said.
Jonathan Pollak, a longtime activist, told The Associated Press that helium was picking olives erstwhile dozens of masked Israeli settlers, equipped with clubs, descended, chasing radical and throwing rocks. Pollak was deed successful the caput and taken to the hospital.
Pollak said that helium saw 5 settlers converge connected a writer and her information guard. He watched the settlers bushed and bludgeon her, denting her helmet.
A Reuters spokesperson said that 2 colleagues were "attacked by a radical of men with sticks and rocks," contempt identifying themselves arsenic journalists, and some were injured. The spokesperson called connected Israeli authorities to analyse and clasp those liable accountable.
Israel's subject said it dispersed a confrontation "between Israeli civilians and Palestinians during an uncoordinated olive harvest successful an country that requires anterior coordination" and that respective Palestinians had been injured.
Rights groups accidental that arrests for settler unit are rare, and prosecutions adjacent rarer. Israel's left-leaning Haaretz paper reported successful 2022 that based connected statistic from the Israeli police, charges were pressed successful lone 3.8% of cases of settler violence, with astir cases closed without enactment taken.
Also Saturday, Palestinian paramedics reported different settler onslaught successful a adjacent village, Burin. The Palestinian Red Crescent said settlers injured 4 planetary activists and 1 57-year-old man.
Israel's subject said soldiers responded to a study of rock-throwing astatine an Israeli conveyance and that Israeli civilians past hurled rocks astatine harvesters. It said Israeli and Palestinian civilians were injured.
Julia Frankel reported from Jerusalem, and Sally Abou AlJoud from Beirut.
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