At least 20,000 people have been killed in the Gaza Strip since the war with Israel began, the Hamas government’s media office in Gaza said on Wednesday.

About 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.

At least 52,600 have been injured and 6,700 are missing, the office added.