More than 100 Israeli soldiers have now been killed in the Gaza ground offensive against Hamas after four troops were killed in the enclave on Sunday.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said the deaths brought its overall toll to 101 troops since the operation was launched in the wake of Hamas’s October 7 attack.

All four of the soldiers were killed in the southern Gaza strip, where Israeli troops are battling Hamas in and around the key city of Khan Younis.

About 18,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the fighting began, according to the territory’s Hamas-run health ministry.

The fighting in Khan Younis comes as Israel refocuses its more than two month war effort to the south after pounding northern Gaza and driving the majority of the Palestinian enclave’s 2.3 million people from their homes.

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