The daily struggle to count the dead in Gaza

 In the morgue of Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza, workers wrap the corpses of people killed in Israeli air strikes in white cloth and record basic facts about the dead, such as name, identity card number, age, and gender. The Gaza health ministry's death toll reached 20,057 people on Friday, with thousands more buried beneath the rubble. Around 70% of those killed are women and children. The ministry's figures have drawn international attention to the high number of civilians being killed in the Israeli military's offensive. With most hospitals across Gaza closed, hundreds of doctors and health workers killed, and communications hampered by lack of fuel and electricity, it is becoming increasingly difficult to compile casualty figures. The data recorded by the morgue workers is collated by workers at a central information center set up by the health ministry at Nasser Hospital.