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The IDF says it has launched a series of small but daring raids into the Gaza Strip under the cover of night to kill terrorist cells and try to learn information about the hundreds of hostages who remain in Hamas’s custody.
Meanwhile its bombardment of Gaza continues. Local health authorities claim the Palestinian death toll has risen to 5,087, including 2,055 children, with a further 15,273 people injured. In the last 24 hours, the death toll has been reported at 436, 182 of whom are children.
Those are figures from the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry. They have not been independently verified.
The ministry also claims most of those most recent deaths were in southern Gaza, to which Israel has advised Palestinian civilians to evacuate for their own safety. Again, that claim has not been independently verified.
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