Gaza health officials say 20,000 Palestinians have been killed in the conflict

A view of the rubble of buildings hit by an Israeli airstrike, in Jabalia, Gaza strip (Hatem Moussa/AP, File)

Health officials in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip say more than 20,000 Palestinians have been killed in the war between Israel and Hamas.

The figure, amounting to nearly 1% of the territory’s pre-war population, is a new reflection of the staggering cost of the war, which in just over 10 weeks has displaced more than 80% of Gaza’s people and devastated wide swaths of the tiny coastal enclave.