LONDON: The Israeli military has admitted that the number of Palestinians killed in the Gaza conflict has been about 70,000 — in line with figures from the Gaza Health Ministry, Israeli media reported on Thursday. Throughout the two-year conflict, Israeli officials refused to accept the numbers provided by the ministry, despite them being widely regarded as accurate by international bodies, including the UN. A senior security official has now confirmed the overall figure, but said the actual breakdown of the toll was still under review, The Times of Israel reported.

The Israeli government has spent years dismissing the Gaza health ministry’s death toll as ‘misleading and unreliable’

El dato coincide a grandes rasgos con el de las autoridades sanitarias de la Franja, cuya fiabilidad han puesto en tela de juicio las autoridades israelíes