The Israeli Army announced this Thursday that it has been bombing the Palestinian enclave of Gaza, controlled by the Islamist movement Hamas, since Saturday with four thousand tons of explosives, the equivalent of six thousand bombs.
Since the beginning of the Israeli response to the attack launched on Saturday by Hamas, “some six thousand bombs with a total weight of four thousand tons of explosives have been dropped on the Gaza Strip”, which have killed “hundreds of terrorists”, he claimed. added the Israeli Army in a statement.
And the Army speaks of an intense use of artillery, a veritable hail of mortars, which acts on both sides, as has also been reported this afternoon in Aljazeera that
There is a new barrage of rockets fired from Gaza towards southern Israel.
The Israeli Air Force also claims to have hit more than 3,600 targets in Gaza since Saturday.
In the Gaza Strip, the bombings do not stop and come from all directions: by air, sea and land, from north to south of the 41-kilometer-long strip.
The attacks displaced more than 330,000 people. Hospitals have launched appeals to international humanitarian organizations to provide urgent medical assistance.
The Islamist group Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israeli territory this Saturday, called Operation “Al-Aqsa Storm”, with the launch of thousands of rockets and the incursion of armed militiamen by land, sea and air.
In response to the surprise attack, Israel bombed several Hamas facilities in the Gaza Strip from the air, in an operation called “Iron Swords.”
On the political level, the deputy head of Hamas’s political office claims in an interview that this was a “preemptive strike,” based on information that Israel was planning an offensive. For Salah al-Aruri, leader of the group, the surprise attack against Israel targeted -exclusively- soldiers and military installations.
“The military installations were demolished in three hours, which surprised us,” says the leader, who defends himself by claiming that armed Israeli civilians attacked Hamas forces.
“Thus, the accusations from Israel and the West that we commit crimes are lies. Israel is the one who commits crimes against humanity. Israel not only attacks Hamas’ infrastructure, but attacks civilians,” guarantees the leader of the Palestinian group, for for whom civilian casualties are collateral damage.
Israel declared total war and vowed to punish Hamas like never before, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared he was “at war” with the Palestinian group.
Hamas has controlled the Gaza Strip since 2007 and is classified as a “terrorist group” by the European Union (EU), the United States and Israel.
Official data on fatalities from the conflict unleashed by the Islamist group on Saturday point to 1,300 deaths in Israel and 1,354 in the Gaza Strip, official sources from both parties indicated this Thursday.
In addition to the 1,300 deaths in Israel, and according to the latest data from the Israeli Ministry of Health, 3,268 people were hospitalized, of which 28 were in critical condition, 348 in serious condition and 581 in moderate condition.
On the Gaza side, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, in addition to the deaths of 1,354 people, many of them civilians, there were 6,049 injured in different states, as well as 31 dead in the West Bank, where around 180 were also injured.
According to Israeli army spokesman Richard Hecht, in addition to the death toll on both sides, around a thousand Hamas militants were killed during clashes with security forces in Israeli territory, where sporadic fighting continues, and five militants were killed on Wednesday.
Source: TSF
