The Government Media Office in Gaza has released new figures on the victims of Israel’s military onslaught on the strip, Al Jazeera reports.

Israel has “wiped out more than 2,180 Palestinian families, where the father, mother, and all family members were killed, and it has obliterated more than 5,070 additional Palestinian families, leaving only a single surviving member in each”, the office was quoted as saying.

The media office said more than 65 per cent of the 52,243 people killed by Israel were women, children and the elderly. More than 18,000 were children and more than 12,400 were women.

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