More than 20,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Israel-Hamas war, Gaza health officials sayNAJIB JOBAIN and SAM MAGDYDecember 22, 2023 at 2:52 AMRAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The war in Gaza has killed more than 20,000 Palestinians, health officials in the Hamas-run territory said Friday, a new reflection of the staggering cost of Israel’s military offensive as pressure grows to scale it back. The figure, amounting to nearly 1% of the territory’s prewar population, is just one measure of the devastation wrought by the conflict that over 11 weeks has displaced nearly 85% of Gaza’s people and leveled wide…
