More than 50,000 people have been killed in the Gaza Strip since the war began, the territory's Hamas-run health ministry has announced, BBC reported.

That number - 50,021 - equates to about 2.1% of the 2.3 million pre-war population of the territory, or around 1 in 50 people. 

A total of 113,274 others had been injured in the same period, the health ministry said. 

Figures from the Gaza Ministry of Health (MoH) have been widely used in times of conflict and are seen as reliable by the United Nations (UN) and international institutions. But Israel has consistently refuted data published by Gaza's authorities, according to BBC.