GAZA/OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: Gaza authorities said on Sunday the death toll from fighting between Israeli troops and Hamas in the Palestinian territory had reached 13,000 since war began on October 7.
The Gaza government said more than 5,500 children were among the dead, alongside 3,500 women, with 30,000 more people wounded.
Its health ministry has previously said it can no longer give exact tolls as intense fighting has prevented bodies from being recovered.
The Israeli military on Sunday said it had uncovered a tunnel under Gaza’s Al-Shifa hospital that stretched 55-metres beneath the complex where troops have been conducting a major operation.
“IDF troops exposed a 55-meter-long terror tunnel 10 metres deep underneath the Shifa hospital complex,” which ran under the hospital and ended at a blast door, an army statement said.
