The Hamas government media office in Gaza announced on Sunday that the toll from Israel's attacks on the Strip 23 days ago had risen to 10,000 dead and missing under the rubble. The media office said, in a statement, that the Israeli army continued today its intensive raids and artillery shelling on various areas in the Gaza Strip, leaving dozens dead and wounded, according to the German News Agency.

According to Palestinian sources, sounds of violent clashes were heard on the northern border of the Gaza Strip, resulting from clashes between resistance fighters and Israeli army forces trying to enter the Strip by land, and violent air strikes inside the Strip.

Amid the Israeli escalation, the Ministry of Interior in Gaza announced today that there were deaths and injuries as Israeli forces targeted a bus carrying citizens in the south of the Strip.

The Ministry said, in a statement, that the Israeli targeting occurred on a street south of Gaza City, according to what was reported by the Arab World News Agency.

For his part, spokesman for the Palestinian Ministry of Education, Sadiq Al-Khadour, announced today the killing of 2,000 students in the Gaza Strip and more than 70 educational staff so far as a result of the ongoing Israeli military operations in the Strip. Al-Khadour said that 200 schools were subjected to “occupation aggression.”

The Israeli army continues its military operations against the Gaza Strip, which has been exhausted by a siege that has been ongoing for 22 days, while the number of victims of Israeli operations has risen to more than 8,000 and 20,000 injured.