Photo: Reuters/fileMore than 60,000 children in the Gaza Strip have lost at least one parent since Israel’s military campaign began in October 2023, the enclave’s health ministry said in a report on Wednesday. Read: Over 100 children killed in Gaza since ceasefire, UNICEF saysThe ministry also said 2,276 families — comprising 8,858 individuals — had been “completely wiped out” from the civil registry amid the ongoing conflict. Overall, the death toll in Gaza has surpassed 73,000 since October 2023, the report added. The report by the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel examined violations against Palestinian children since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas on October 7, 2023. Around 30% of those killed in the Gaza war were children, the report found.