On Thursday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu showed US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken photos of babies allegedly killed and burned by the Islamist group Hamas.
In one of the photos you can see the body of a bloodied child in a body bag and in the other two charred human remains of what appears to be two babies, according to the images already published on the social network X. (formerly Twitter) and which the DN chooses not to publish.
“This vision goes beyond what we can imagine for everyone”the head of North American diplomacy noted and addedand “the world sees new evidence of (…) Hamas’s inhumanity (…) against babies, young children, adults, the elderly, people with disabilities”.
In recent days, a controversy has arisen around the existence of evidence of abuses committed by Hamas against children from attacked ‘kibbutz’ (former collectivist farming villages), after a soldier told a television channel that there were reports of ‘decapitated babies’.
Fighting in some communities lasted several days and resulted in hundreds of deaths. An undetermined number of people still need to be identified or recovered.
The Islamist group Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israeli territory on Saturday, dubbed Operation ‘Storm al-Aqsa’, 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 dubbed “Iron Swords”.
Israel declared all-out war and vowed to punish Hamas like never before, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declaring 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 provoked by the Islamist group on Saturday points to 1,300 dead in Israel and 1,354 in the Gaza Strip, official sources from both sides said today.
In addition to the 1,300 deaths in Israel, 3,268 people were hospitalized, of whom 28 were in critical condition, 348 in serious condition and 581 in moderate condition, according to the latest data from the Israeli Ministry of Health.
On the Gaza side, the Palestinian Health Ministry said, in addition to the deaths of 1,354 people, including many civilians, there were 6,049 injuries in several states, as well as 31 deaths in the West Bank, where some 180 were also injured. counted.
According to Israeli army spokesman Richard Hecht, in addition to the number of deaths on both sides, approximately 1,000 Hamas militiamen were killed in clashes with security forces on Israeli territory, where sporadic fighting continues. Five militia members were killed on Wednesday.
Source: DN
