The death toll in the Gaza Strip has risen to 1,200, the Palestinian Health Ministry reported this Thursday, following an increase in Israeli bombings on the Palestinian enclave controlled by the Islamist movement Hamas.
“The number of martyrs has increased to about 1,200 and the number of wounded to about 5,600,” a ministry spokesman said.
A previous report from health authorities pointed to at least 1,100 deaths and 5,339 injuries.
Meanwhile, more than 338,000 people have been forced to flee their homes in the Gaza Strip, which is surrounded and bombed by the Israeli army, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said.
At the end of the day on Wednesday, the number of displaced people in this densely populated territory, with around 2.3 million inhabitants, had “increased by another 75,000, to 338,934,” OCHA stated in a statement.
Hamas, in power in the Gaza Strip since 2007, launched a surprise attack on Israeli territory on October 7, under the name of operation “Al-Aqsa Storm”, with the launch of thousands of rockets and the incursion of rebels. armed by land. sea and air.
In response, Israel bombed several Hamas facilities in that Palestinian territory from the air, in an operation it called “Iron Swords.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that the country is “at war” with Hamas, which has been internationally classified as a terrorist movement not only by Israel, but also by the United States and the European Union (EU), as well as other states. . . .
Israel, which has imposed a total siege on the Gaza Strip and cut off the supply of water, fuel and electricity, has confirmed more than 1,200 dead and 3,700 wounded since the start of the Hamas offensive, supported by the Lebanese Hezbollah and the branch of the Islamic Jihad. .
Source: TSF
