The Gaza health ministry denies manipulating death toll figures, as Israel challenges the accuracy of the Palestinian fatalities list. At least 51,266 people have been killed in the 18 months since the Gaza war began, with nearly a third of the dead aged under 18. Israel has accused Hamas of inflating the percentages of women and children in the list. Media reports have raised questions about the reliability of the statistics by highlighting anomalies between different lists of fatalities.