Simon Harris: 'The world must be ashamed' as Gaza death toll passes 40,000

Three-month-old Rim, sole survivor of an Israeli attack on the Abu Hiyye family home in Khan Yunis on Thursday. Picture: Mahmoud Bassam/Anadolu/Getty

More than 40,000 people have been killed in the Israeli war in Gaza, a milestone the "world must be ashamed of", the Taoiseach has said.

One in 50 residents of the Palestinian enclave have now died in the conflict, according to Gaza health authorities, but humanitarian organisations and health officials fear the total could be far higher, with thousands still unaccounted for or trapped under rubble.