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Today marks the 700th day of war in Gaza.
It began with a Hamas attack on Israel that Israelis say killed 1,200 people.
Tens of thousands of Palestinians have since been killed in Israeli attacks.
NPR's Aya Batrari reports on the latest figures from Gaza.
Gaza's health ministry has released a detailed list of people killed and wounded in the past nearly two years of war.
The figures list more than 19,000 Palestinian children killed by Israeli fire in Gaza,
accounting for a third of the overall death toll there of more than 64,000.
The health ministry's figures also show more than 56,300 children have had one or both parents killed in Israeli strikes.
It says more than 1,000 children have lost limbs in the war.
Israel has challenged the credibility of the health ministry's figures,
which the UN says are historically credible.
The Israeli military says it's already in control of 40 percent of Gaza City and will expand the offensive with the objective of returning hostages and dismantling Hamas rule.
NPR's Quill Lawrence reports operations would be staged out of Great Lakes Naval Station.
A U.S. official who is not authorized to speak publicly confirmed to NPR that the Department of Homeland Security has requested assistance from the Pentagon for ice enforcement and removal operations in the Chicago metropolitan area.