The total number of dead also does not include the approximately 10,000 people who are still missing and trapped under the rubble, the officials added.
Both the UN and US officials have previously appraised the figures from the Ministry of Health in Gaza as credible.
The change was that the health Ministry was able to report deaths again, which did not have the same breakdown as the local news had been reporting while the health Ministry was unable to. Still the same total.