2023-10-07 16:58:24
At least 198 Palestinians died and more than 1,600 were injured by Israeli fighting and bombing in Gaza, as the strong armed conflict that broke out this morning due to a surprise offensive against Israel by land, sea and air by the Islamist group Hamas continues.
(AP)
According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, 198 people from the coastal enclave have died and 1,610 are injured. “as a consequence of Israeli aggression”while air strikes by Israel in Gaza and rocket fire by Palestinian militias into Israeli territory continue, where it is estimated that there are still many members of Gaza militias fighting with Israeli forces.
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.
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 was able to observe, among the deceased there would be at least 20 Palestinian militiamen who died in fighting in Israel after their raid 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, He 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 Gaza.
“What has begun is not an operation, but a battle that will expand, intensify and deepen”warned the Arouri.
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