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nearly 20,000 Palestinians have been killed since Israel declared war on Hamas, 8000 of them were children, 6200 were women. Thousands more bodies lie buried under the rubble. Around 300 Palestinians have died each day since the conflict began, excluding the seven-day ceasefire, says Gaza's Health Ministry. Israel-Hamas war updates: Death toll in Gaza hits 20,000 as fighting rages. Israel has said air attacks across Gaza – including in the southernmost city of Rafah – will continue as the death toll in the enclave today passed 20,000 since the start of the conflict. It has said that Yemen
has been helping Palestine. The UN human rights office has said it received “disturbing information” accusing Israeli forces of summarily executing at least 11 unarmed Palestinian men in Gaza City. At least 20,000 Palestinians in Gaza have been reported killed since Israel began bombing the territory in the wake of Hamas's 7 October attacks. BBC Verify examines what Gaza's death toll reveals about the conflict. Doctors in Gaza say the death toll is likely to be significantly higher as it does not include bodies buried under the rubble of destroyed buildings or those not taken to hospitals. A high death toll
The pace of killing in this war has been "exceptionally high", says Prof Michael Spagat, who specialises in examining death tolls in conflicts around the world, such as the 2003 Iraq war, Colombia's civil conflict, wars in the Democratic Republic of Congo as well as previous wars between Israel and Gaza.
"Within the series of Gaza wars stretching back to 2008, the current one is unprecedented both for the number of people killed and for the indiscriminateness of the killing," he adds.