2023-10-08 12:01:28
At least 313 people have died in the Gaza Strip since the start of fighting with Israel on Saturday, according to a new report from the Palestinian enclave’s Ministry of Health released this Sunday.
In addition, 1,990 people were injured in Israeli fighting and bombings against the Gaza Strip, controlled by the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, according to the same source. On Saturday morning, Hamas launched thousands of rockets against Israel and its militants entered Israeli territory en masse.
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According to Palestinian sources in the Strip, at least five buildings have been destroyed in Gaza by Israeli bombings, and hospitals are in a state of emergency due to the situation.
People stand on a rooftop watch as a ball of fire and smoke rises over a building in Gaza City on October 7, 2023 during an Israeli airstrike that hit the Palestine Tower building. (Photo by MAHMUD HAMS / AFP).
In turn, thousands of Gazan civilians from towns in the north of the Strip such as Beit Hanoun, Jabalia or Beit Lahia were evacuated and fled to Gaza City to be housed in schools run by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees due to the harshness of the confrontations.
Likewise, as EFE observed, among the deceased there were at least 20 Palestinian militiamen who died in combat in Israel after their incursion this morning and whose bodies were returned.
According to local estimates, it is estimated that the number of militants currently still in Israel is much higher than the figure given by the Israeli authorities, and could be hundreds or even more than a thousand members of the Al Qasam Brigades, a military wing of Hamas, or the armed wing of the Islamist group Islamic Jihad.
The militants killed Israeli soldiers, held residents hostage in Israeli towns near the Strip and kidnapped around fifty people, according to Gaza sources and videos spread on social networks where soldiers, civilians and also immigrants are captured. Asians.
In turn, Saleh al Arouri, a senior official of the Islamist movement Hamas, assured that the militants have managed to capture “senior officials of the Israeli Army”, among whom there could be a general, according to images spread on networks in which he is seen inside. from Gaza.
“What has begun is not an operation, but a battle that will expand, intensify and deepen,” al Arouri warned.
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