At least 13 Israeli and foreign hostages detained in the northern Gaza Strip were killed in Israeli airstrikes in the last 24 hours, Hamas reported this Friday.
Israel has concentrated forces near the Gaza Strip in a sign of a possible ground offensive, after bombing territory controlled by the Islamist group Hamas in recent days.
The escalation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict was sparked by Hamas’ unprecedented incursion into Israel on Saturday, killing civilians and soldiers and taking more than a hundred hostages, taken to the Gaza Strip.
Since then, the conflict has caused more than 1,300 deaths on the Israeli side and more than 1,500 on the Palestinian side.
Israeli bombings also left more than 423,000 people displaced in the Gaza Strip.
Source: TSF
