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Gwinnett County police are asking for the public’s help in locating a missing 18-year-old Buford girl.

Gaza's Health Ministry says more than 18,600 Palestinians have been killed since Oct. 7, when Israel responded to a deadly attack by Hamas militants with a punishing bombing campaign. But with the health care system collapsing and communications networks disrupted, it's becoming more difficult to track the dead.

A senior Israeli official told journalists on Monday that around a third of those killed in Gaza so far were enemy combatants, estimating their number at less than 10,000 but more than 5,000, without detailing how the estimate was reached. The official said the total count of some 15,000 dead as of Monday given by Palestinian authorities, who do not break down the count between civilians and combatants, is "more or less" right.

Israeli forces unleashed an aerial and ground blitz against Hamas in Gaza after a cross-border rampage by the enclave's ruling Islamist group on Oct. 7.

Aid agencies warn that a humanitarian disaster in Gaza is worsening by the hour with most of its 2.3 million people homeless and trapped in a tiny, embattled coastal enclave, with little food, water, medical care, fuel or secure shelter