Palestinian death toll in Gaza rises to 66,055

The Palestinian death toll in the Gaza Strip has risen to 66,055, with 168,376 injured since the conflict between Hamas and Israel erupted on October 7, 2023, Gaza's health authorities said in a statement on Monday.

Over the past 24 hours, Israeli attacks killed 50 people and injured 184 others in Gaza, the statement said.

Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced on Monday that it had attacked around 140 targets in Gaza in the past 24 hours, including infrastructure it said was being used by Palestinian armed groups.

Three divisions of its ground troops continued to push into Gaza City, the IDF said.

The Al-Qassam Brigades, an armed wing of Hamas, announced last Sunday that it had lost contact with two Israeli hostages in the past 48 hours due to intense Israeli military attacks in the region. The IDF has yet to respond to the report.

Palestinian death toll in Gaza rises to 66,055

Palestinian death toll in Gaza rises to 66,055

China's outstanding aggregate social financing -- the total amount of financing to the real economy -- reached 442.12 trillion yuan (about 63.4 trillion U.S. dollars) as of the end of 2025, up 8.3 percent year on year, central bank data showed on Thursday.

The country's aggregate social financing stood at 35.6 trillion yuan (about 5.1 trillion U.S. dollars) in 2025, up by 3.34 trillion yuan (about 479 billion U.S. dollars) from the year 2024, said the People's Bank of China (PBOC), the country's central bank.

According to the data, the M2, a broad measure of money supply that covers cash in circulation and all deposits, increased 8.5 percent year on year to 340.29 trillion yuan (about 48.8 trillion U.S. dollars) as of the end of December.

In addition, outstanding yuan loans stood at 271.91 trillion yuan (about 39 trillion U.S. dollars) at the end of 2025, up 6.4 percent year on year.

China's aggregate social financing maintains high growth in 2025