The Palestinian Prime Minister, Mohammed Shtayyeh, accused Israel this Friday of committing “genocide” in the Gaza Strip, which is being bombed by the Israeli Army in its war against the Islamist movement Hamas, which controls that Palestinian territory.
“Our people in Gaza are suffering a genocide and the Gaza Strip has become a sinister zone,” Shtayyeh declared at a press conference in Ramallah, in the West Bank, seven days after a massive attack by Hamas against Israel, in the that the Jews The State responded with airstrikes against the Palestinian enclave.
Hamas, in power in the Gaza Strip since 2007, launched a surprise attack on Israeli territory on October 7, which it called operation “Al-Aqsa Storm”, with the launch of thousands of rockets and the incursion of armed fighters by land, sea and air.
In response, Israel bombed several Hamas infrastructures in the Gaza Strip from the air, in an operation it called “Iron Swords.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that Israel is “at war” with Hamas, which, he recalled, was internationally classified as a terrorist organization.
Israel has imposed a total siege on the Gaza Strip and cut off the supply of water, fuel and electricity and has so far confirmed more than 1,300 dead and more than three thousand wounded since the start of the Hamas offensive, supported by Hezbollah. Lebanese and the Palestinian branch. of Islamic Jihad.
On the Palestinian side, the Ministry of Health confirmed this Friday that, in Gaza, Israeli retaliation attacks left at least 1,799 dead and more than seven thousand injured and that there were also 31 dead in the West Bank, as well as around 180 injured. .
According to Israeli army spokesman Richard Hecht, around a thousand Hamas fighters were also killed during clashes with security forces on Israeli territory, where sporadic fighting continues.
Source: TSF
