Around 8,000 Hamas fighters killed in Gaza war, says IDF spokesman

IDF Spokesperson Major Doron Spielman says around 8,000 Hamas fighters have been killed since the conflict in Gaza so far. Mr Spielman said the figures are based on intelligence, the interrogations of captives as well as satellite photos that have been gathered. “The issue is because each of the fighters are surrounding themselves with a blanket of civilians and are often located underground, underneath their homes it's difficult to come up with an assessment,” he told Sky News Australia. “The most accurate way of doing so is based on intelligence, it is based on integrations that happen afterwards, satellite photographs. “And we try to come up with a number not only so that we have a number, but so that we can try to understand how we are pinpointing terrorists and not civilians."