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The death toll in Gaza is now more than 25,000. That's according to the Hamas run, Gaza Ministry of Health. Amid the fighting, tonight, our team on the ground sent these images from a hospital in Khan Unis. Abc's Matt Gutman, just back from Gaza, where he had a rare look inside tunnels where the IDF says they were used to hide some of the hostages.

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Even from inside this armored vehicle, the scars of war are visible everywhere in the Gaza City of Khan units. Pretty much all the roads around us are are obliterated, and many of the houses are, too. A grim milestone marked in the conflict today. More than 25,000 killed in Gaza, according to the Hamas run Health Ministry. As the Israeli military continues its campaign against Hamas, it says it's also focused on finding the hostages. Israel believes many of them are hidden in tunnels hollowed out beneath middle-class neighborhoods like this. The idea of taking us to this home, we duck into the hole on the floor, then down four sets of stairs. We're about 60 feet under a neighborhood in Han Yunis, and there's this massive sprawl of tunnels right beneath where people were living. See how well-manufactured it is. Concrete arches above, concrete on the side. You can see all the different wires, coax power. There's a half mile straight away. Then it opens to this large vaulted room. These look like they held some weapon here. It says, RPG. And a hallway leading to what Israel says were cells for hostages. You can see a pillow, mattress, bathroom on the other end.

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They said they found articles of women's clothing and DNA that they matched to hostages. The IDF says about 20 hostages were held here and that it continues to search for the more than 100 hostages still in captivity. Is it absolutely necessary to have leveled so much of the Gaza Strip and make life virtually impossible for the people who are left here to live? Israel doesn't seek destruction, but we need to fight this a terror base that was built underneath a neighborhood. Meantime, the war grinds on. More than 60,000 wounded, among them, 16-year-old Abdul Rahman Iyad, who Arnest Delacutera met aboard a French hospital ship docked off Egypt. He's one of the very few able to leave for treatment. He says an Israeli airstrike obliterated his home in central Gaza. Almost all my family is gone, he says. My mom, my dad, and siblings, I'm the only survivor left from the family. Today, Israel's Prime Minister, Netanyahu, saying the war will continue on all fronts. Video from Southern Lebanon capturing the aftermath of an apparent Israeli drone strike on a vehicle carrying Hezbollah militants. Lindsay, tonight, in response to President Biden saying he believes they can work something out on the two-state solution, Netanyahu contradicting the President, saying that as long as he's Prime Minister of Israel, he will firmly oppose the establishment of any Palestinian state.

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Lindsay.

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Fundamental differences there, Matt. Thank you.

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