Gaza’s ministry of health has published a list of names of 7,000 people it says have been killed by Israel in the last three weeks.
The Hamas list - which has not been verified - is more than 200 pages long and includes the age and gender of the victims.
On Wednesday, US president Joe Biden said he had “no confidence in the number that the Palestinians are using” for the death toll.
Israel says that more than 1,400 people were killed in the Hamas attacks on 7 October that sparked the latest wave of violence in the war-torn region.
Overnight, Israeli tanks crossed over the border into Gaza and attacked Hamas targets in a limited “raid” before withdrawing.
The military said the raid was carried out “in preparation for the next stages of combat” as the Israeli defence forces prepared for a large-scale invasion that Israeli leaders have threatened as part of the war to destroy Hamas.
Benny Gantz, a retired general and member of Israel’s war cabinet, said any ground offensive would be only “one stage in a long-term process... that will take years”.
