Palestinian death toll in Gaza tops 69,000, local health officials say as more bodies are exchanged

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46% : Following the return of Rudaeff, Israel on Saturday handed over the 15 Palestinian bodies and Nasser Hospital in the central Gaza city of Khan Younis confirmed receiving them.
45% : The Hostages and Missing Families Forum said Rudaeff was born in Argentina and moved to Kibbutz Nir Yitzhak, a farming community in southern Israel, as a child.
45% : Israel has so far handed over the bodies of 300 Palestinians.
44% : For each Israeli hostage returned, Israel has been releasing the remains of 15 Palestinians.
43% : Though fragile, the deal appears to be holding, with Israel earlier on Saturday returning the bodies of 15 Palestinians to Gaza, according to hospital officials in the strip.
43% : The handover came a day after militants returned the remains of a hostage to Israel.
40% : The truce is aimed at winding down the deadliest and most destructive war ever fought between Israel and the Palestinian militant group.
39% : It also includes Palestinians killed by strikes on the territory since the truce took hold, attacks that Israel says are to take out remaining militants.
37% : The Health Ministry in Gaza said that the total number of people killed in the Gaza Strip since the Hamas-led attack on Israel Oct. 7, 2023, has risen to 69,169, after more of the dead were ID-ed and more bodies were recovered.
36% : The Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas-led attack on southern Israel killed about 1,200 people and saw 251 taken hostage.
36% : The circumstances of the attack were not immediately clear and Israel's military did not respond to a request for comment.
35% : Death toll in Gaza climbs Nearly a month after the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel, authorities in Gaza continue to recover bodies amid widespread destruction, using limited equipment and resources.
35% : Since the ceasefire began on October 10, a total of 241 people have been killed in Gaza, according to the Health Ministry Bodies of hostages remaining in Gaza Israel confirmed Saturday that the remains given back the previous night were of an Israeli hostage who died while fighting Hamas in the militants' 2023 attack that started the war.
23% : KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) -- Gaza health officials said Saturday that over 69,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Israel-Hamas war so far, as Israel and Hamas completed the latest exchange of bodies under the terms of the tenuous ceasefire agreement.

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