Palestinian death toll in Gaza rises to 66,288

The Palestinian death toll in the Gaza Strip has risen to 66,288, with 169,165 others injured since the conflict between Hamas and Israel erupted on October 7, 2023, Gaza's health authorities said in a statement on Friday.

Israeli military operations in Gaza over the past 24 hours have killed 63 Palestinians and injured 227 others, the health authorities said in the statement.

Since Israel resumed full-scale military operations in Gaza on March 18 this year, following a brief ceasefire, 13,420 Palestinians have been killed and 57,124 injured, the authorities said.

Japan's economy shrank an annualized real 2.3 percent in the third quarter of 2025, revised government data showed on Monday, compared with an initially reported 1.8 percent drop.

The revised figure for gross domestic product (GDP) from the Cabinet Office marked the fastest contraction since the third quarter of 2023.

In the three months through September, real GDP, adjusted for inflation, contracted 0.6 percent on a quarter-on-quarter basis, compared with the preliminary reading of a 0.4 percent decline, data showed.

Private consumption, which accounts for more than half of the economy, inched up a revised 0.2 percent in July-September, compared with the initial estimate of 0.1 percent.

Among other key components, the capital expenditure, a barometer of private demand, fell 0.2 percent, lowered from the initial estimate of a 1.0 percent gain.

External demand, or exports minus imports, subtracted 0.2 percentage points from the GDP, unchanged from the preliminary reading.