The toll continues to rise.
The Hamas Health Ministry announced on Sunday that 27,365 people had been killed, mostly women, children and adolescents, in the Gaza Strip since the start of the war between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement.
He reported in a statement 127 deaths in the last 24 hours, and a total of 66,630 people injured since the start of the war on October 7.
As the war enters its fifth month on February 7, the Israeli army continued its bombings on Khan Younes, the large southern city where, according to Israel, Hamas officials are hiding.
Airstrikes also targeted Rafah, a few kilometers further south.
One of these strikes hit a kindergarten where displaced people were sheltering, the Hamas government press office said.
According to the UN, more than 1.3 million people who have fled fighting and bombings are now crowding into this city located on the closed border with Egypt.
Fears are growing in the face of a possible military offensive against the city which had 200,000 inhabitants before the war and where displaced people living in shelters and makeshift camps are threatened by shortages and epidemics.
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The Hamas Ministry of Health reports almost daily the deaths of around a hundred Palestinians in Israeli bombings and in fighting between the Israeli army and Hamas, considered a terrorist organization by the United States and Israel. European Union.
The war was sparked on October 7 by an unprecedented Hamas attack on Israeli soil, which resulted in the deaths of more than 1,160 people, the majority civilians, according to an AFP count based on official Israeli data. .
In response, Israel vowed to "annihilate" Hamas and launched a military offensive which killed 27,365 people, the vast majority civilians, according to a latest report on Sunday from the Islamist movement's Ministry of Health.
The Israeli army, which launched a ground campaign on October 27 in the north of the Gaza Strip, announced a new toll of 225 soldiers killed in the territory after the death of a soldier.