2023-11-11 07:21:28
Israel has revised the death toll from the Hamas attack carried out on October 7 on its territory from 1,400 to 1,200 after identifying the bodies as those of men from the Islamist movement, the spokesperson for the Ministry of Defense said on Friday. Foreign Affairs.
The Israeli authorities have “updated” this report because they now believe that “many of the bodies which had not been identified” are those of people who participated in “the Hamas terrorist attack, and not Israeli victims”. said Lior Haiat.
This updated toll of 1,200 deaths, the majority civilians killed on the day of the attack by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas on October 7, was used Friday in a press release from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. “Hamas terrorists murdered in cold blood around 1,200 people and kidnapped 240, including babies, children, women and the elderly,” it said.
A complex identification task
Since October 7 and the attack of a scale and violence never seen since the creation of Israel in 1948, the Israeli authorities have been carrying out a complex work of identifying the bodies found in different places in the south of Israel. The previous toll of 1,400 was gradually established in the week following the attacks and had remained stable since then.
For more than a month, Israel has declared a war to “eradicate” Hamas, in power in the Gaza Strip. The incessant Israeli bombardments on this territory have left more than 11,000 dead, mainly civilians, including more than 4,500 children, according to the Hamas Ministry of Health.
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