Yet the Gaza-based Ministry of Health — an agency in the Hamas-controlled government — continues to tally casualty numbers. "The numbers may not be perfectly accurate on a minute-to-minute basis," said Michael Ryan, of the World Health Organization's Health Emergencies Program. But an outlier is the ministry's death toll from an explosion at al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City in mid-October. There have also been conflicting accounts of the explosion's death toll. Here's a look at how Gaza's Health Ministry has generated death tolls since the war started.

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