2023-12-09 22:59:20
The war lasts and the death toll continues to rise. The Hamas Health Ministry announced on Saturday that Israeli bombings in the Gaza Strip had left 17,700 dead and 48,780 injured in two months of war between the Palestinian Islamist movement and Israel.
The Hamas government, which has controlled Gaza since 2007, estimates that the real number of dead and injured is much higher, with Palestinian rescue services and foreign NGOs unable to access all of the bombed areas. to free the victims from the rubble. Le Parisien is, however, unable to independently verify these figures.
A military operation that lasts
In retaliation for the bloody attack carried out by Hamas on October 7 on its soil which led to the death of nearly 1,200 people, Israel shells the Palestinian enclave where the terrorists took refuge almost daily. The Israeli army is also carrying out a ground military operation there in order to flush them out and try to find some of the 138 Israelis or dual nationals captured on October 7 and still held in the enclave.
A truce of several days, concluded at the end of November between the Hebrew State and the Palestinian Islamist movement, allowed the release of 105 Israeli hostages (mainly women and children) and the return to the West Bank of several hundred Palestinian prisoners, there too minors and women.
#Gaza #Hamas #Health #Ministry #announces #death #toll