GAZA STRIP, Palestinian Territories, Dec  20, 2023 (BSS/AFP) - The Hamas

government's media office in the Gaza Strip said Wednesday at least 20,000
people have been killed in the Palestinian territory since the war with Israel
began.

       Some 8,000 children and 6,200 women were among the dead, it said, as the
conflict continued to rage more than two months after it broke out on October 7.