This is an archive article published on July 29, 2014

Gaza official: At least 100 killed on Tuesday in Gaza

The high death toll comes as Israel has escalated its military offensive in the coastal strip.

By: AP
1 min readGaza CityJul 29, 2014 06:58 PM IST First published on: Jul 29, 2014 at 06:58 PM IST
Smoke rises from a building that was hit with an Israeli strike in Gaza City on Tuesday. ( Source: AP ) Smoke rises from a building that was hit with an Israeli strike in Gaza City on Tuesday. ( Source: AP )

A Palestinian health official says at least 100 Palestinians have been killed in the fighting in Gaza on Tuesday. The high death toll comes as Israel has escalated its military offensive in the coastal strip.

Gaza health official Ashraf al-Kidra says the toll counts those killed from midnight on Monday. The Palestinian death toll in more than three weeks of Israel-Hamas fighting has surpassed 1,100.

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Since the start of Israeli ground operations in the Gaza Strip, there have been several instances when the daily Palestinian death toll surpassed 100.

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