2023-10-16 15:15:00
Since the war began, 58 Palestinians have also died in clashes with Israelis and 1,250 have been injured in the occupied West Bank, where Israeli forces this morning launched a wide-ranging campaign of arrests in numerous districts, during which a young man died in Jericho for a head shot.
Added to this is the death of a young man who died today after being injured in the head last Friday during protests in Tulkarem.
In the intense Israeli bombings on the Gaza Strip this morning at least 50 people died, 30 of them during attacks on two districts of Khan Younis, in the south of the Strip, reports the Palestinian agency Wafa.
Khan Younis and nearby Rafah, on the border with Egypt, host hundreds of thousands of Gazans from the north of the Strip, who have fled to the south in compliance with the order, issued by Israel, to leave Gaza City in the north in anticipation of more intense bombings.
Another 16 people died during a bombing in Nuseirat, also located in the southern half of the Strip, that is, in the part that Israel has suggested as a safe destination for the 1.1 million Gazans residing in the northern third.
In addition, local authorities estimate that there are at least a thousand people trapped under the rubble, who have not yet been able to be identified, the aforementioned agency recalls.
The information office of the Palestinian Government denounced the bombing of a Civil Defense post in the Strip early today, in which five members of this body died, which, it clarifies, has the function of firefighters and assumes rescue tasks. Therefore, it considers this attack a “war crime.”
The war unleashed by the Hamas attack, which today is in its tenth day, has left a total of 2,800 dead and almost 11,000 injured on the Palestinian side, while in Israel some 1,400 people died, the vast majority civilians, during the assault. of the Islamist militia, to which are added five deaths caused by fire from the Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah on the northern border.
In addition, some 1,200 Hamas members died on Israeli soil during the October 7 attack and in the three days that followed in fighting with Israeli forces sent to recapture the approximately thirty inhabited towns taken by the militants during the assault.
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