Israeli media report that a senior security source has said the military accepts that more than 70,000 Palestinians have been killed during the war in Gaza. Israel has previously cast doubt on figures from the Hamas-run health ministry. But their figures have been deemed reliable by the UN and other human rights groups and widely cited by international media. The war began after the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on 7 October 2023, when about 1,200 other people were killed and 251 were