TEL AVIV: The death toll from Israel's attack on Gaza has exceeded 10,000. The official information is that 10022 people have died so far. The Palestinian Health Department reported that 4,104 children are among the dead. Israel is carrying out a heavy air strike on Gaza. Israel claimed to have divided the Gaza Strip into southern Gaza and northern Gaza. The forces besieging Gaza City will launch a heavy ground offensive tomorrow or the day after. Today, the Israeli army dropped leaflets from planes urging those remaining in northern Gaza to evacuate to the southern areas.

Mobile and internet services in Gaza are down again. This is the third time since the war that communication with the outside world has been severed. From Sunday night to early this morning, Israel has destroyed 450 Hamas sites. 30 civilians were killed. Israel seized control of the area, which includes an underground tunnel, observation point and training centre for Hamas. Last day, 13 people were killed in an airstrike in Al Buraij refugee camp in central Gaza.

Israel says it has killed Jamal Moosa, the head of Hamas's special security mission. An Israeli soldier was also killed in the encounter. The police killed the assailant who stabbed an Israeli soldier in East Jerusalem.

Israel reiterates that Gaza hospitals are being used by Hamas for terrorist activities. Israel has released footage of Hamas gunmen emerging from an underground tunnel under the Sheikh Hamad hospital north of Gaza City. At the same time, the heads of 18 UN agencies, including UNICEF and WHO, issued a joint statement condemning the rise in civilian deaths in Gaza and demanding an immediate ceasefire. So far, 88 UN staff have been killed.