More than 1,300 buildings were completely destroyed in the Gaza Strip, the UN announced this Saturday, after a week of intense bombing by Israeli forces.
According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), citing data from the Gaza Ministry of Public Works, 1,324 residential and non-residential buildings were destroyed, with a total of 5,540 homes, while another 3,750 homes suffered. damage to the point of collapse becoming uninhabitable.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Friday that the current attacks on Gaza are just “the beginning,” as Israel seeks to retaliate against the bloody Hamas attack of October 7, launched in the middle of Saturday’s rest period. Jewish weekly, and the last day of the Sukkot holiday.
Hundreds of Hamas fighters infiltrated Israel by vehicle, by air and by sea, killing more than a thousand civilians in the streets and in their homes, spreading terror under an avalanche of rockets.
During the attack, which stunned the country, militants from Hamas, an Islamist movement considered terrorist by the European Union (EU) and the United States, kidnapped dozens of Israeli hostages, foreigners and citizens with dual nationality, which the Islamist group, which Controls Gaza since 2007 and threatens to execute.
The Palestinian Health Ministry stated that at least 1,900 Gazans, mostly civilians, and more than 600 children, were killed in Israeli attacks on the densely populated enclave.
The UN is trying to count the number of people displaced from their homes in the Gaza Strip, with more than 423,000 registered as of the end of Thursday.
Israel has warned that 1.1 million people living in the north of the enclave must quickly move south ahead of an expected ground offensive.
Source: TSF
