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US Says Has No 'Accurate' Gaza Death Toll, But Far Too Many Innocent Palestinians Killed

© AFP 2023 / KENZO TRIBOUILLARDThis picture taken from the Israeli side of the border with the Gaza Strip on November 11, 2023.
This picture taken from the Israeli side of the border with the Gaza Strip on November 11, 2023. - Sputnik International, 1920, 14.11.2023
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WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The United States is unable to provide any accurate assessment of the death toll from the Palestine-Israel conflict but admits that too many innocent Palestinians have been killed, State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said on Tuesday.
"We don't have an accurate assessment or an assessment that we know to be accurate about the number of Palestinians who have been killed. But as the secretary said last week, we know that far too many innocent Palestinian civilians have been killed," Miller told a briefing.
The death toll from Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip has reached 11,240, including 4,630 children, Gaza's media office said on Tuesday.
The United Nations previously said the figures provided by the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza have proven consistently credible in the past, and it sees no reason to challenge them.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said last week that the number of civilians killed indicates that "something is clearly wrong" with Israel's military operations.
Mourners carry the body of Reuters videographer Issam Abdallah who was killed by Israeli shelling during his funeral procession in his hometown of Khiam, southern Lebanon, Saturday, Oct. 14, 2023 - Sputnik International, 1920, 03.11.2023
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