2023-10-12 14:30:01
Dozens of foreign citizens have been killed, injured or taken hostage since the offensive launched on Saturday by the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas against Israel, which has already left more than 1,203 dead on the Israeli side, including several Latin Americans and Spaniards.
In the Gaza Strip, health authorities give a toll of at least 1,354 dead in the Israeli bombings launched in retaliation.
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According to an AFP tally, 99 deaths of foreign citizens, many of whom also had Israeli nationality, have been confirmed by authorities in their countries.
The number of Palestinians killed as a result of the Israeli Army’s bombings against the Gaza Strip after the offensive launched on Saturday by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) has risen to 1,354, as confirmed this Thursday by the Palestinian authorities, which place 6,049 were injured in the enclave.
The Gaza Ministry of Health has indicated on its official Facebook profile that at least half of the deceased are women and children, who also represent 60 percent of the injured. In addition, they have warned that health services have entered “a critical stage.”
For its part, the Ministry of Health of the Palestinian Authority has expressed itself in the same terms and has warned on its social networks that the enormous number of wounded in Gaza territory “currently exceeds the capacity of the hospitals” in the Gaza Strip. .
“We warn of the collapse of the health situation in the Gaza Strip, as a result of an acute shortage of medical supplies and operating room supplies, medicines and blood bags,” explained Palestinian Health Minister Mai la Kila, who has asked for help from international organizations and third countries.
The Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the opposition leader, Benny Gantz, agreed this Wednesday on the creation of an emergency government to join forces in the response to the Hamas attacks, from which for now the other pillar of the opposition, Yair Lapid, who has ruled out sharing a cabinet with the far right.
On the battlefield, the Israeli Army has stated that its Air Force is attacking targets in the Gaza Strip “on an unprecedented scale”, amid the fighting unleashed by the offensive launched on Saturday by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas).
“We are attacking the Gaza Strip on an unprecedented scale, because what happened here is something that has not happened before,” said the head of the Israeli Air Force, Omer Tishler, who indicated that “there is an enemy that fires rockets and attacks the civilian population.”
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“We are never going to go back to that,” he stated, while acknowledging that the bombings are no longer “surgical,” although he stressed that civilian targets are not being attacked, as reported by The Times of Israel.
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