FILE: Gaza Strip - Oct-Nov 2025 (CGTN - No access Chinese mainland) 1. Various of collapsed buildings, rubble FILE: Gaza City, Gaza Strip - Nov 20, 2025 (CGTN - No access Chinese mainland) 2. People in destroyed buildings FILE: Gaza Strip - Nov 28, 2025 (CGTN - No access Chinese mainland) 3. Various of displaced Palestinians walking among piles of rubble Gaza Strip - Dec 19, 2025 (CGTN - No access Chinese mainland) 4. Tents 5. Various of displaced resident Hanadi Al-Jamal drying clothes 6. Children playing on dirt road, sitting in front of tents 7. Flooded area with shallow standing water, tents Storyline The combined number of casualties in the war-ravaged Gaza Strip has surpassed 242,150 since the conflict between Hamas and Israel erupted on Oct 7, 2023, according to Gaza's health authorities on Friday. Over the past 48 hours, three bodies were brought to Gaza hospitals -- one newly reported fatality and two recovered from the rubble -- bringing the overall death toll to 70,945, with 171,211 people injured. Israel has carried out attacks in Gaza since a fragile ceasefire took effect on Oct 10, during which Gaza's health authorities have reported 410 Palestinian deaths and 1,134 injuries.