2023-10-08 00:29:00
The death toll following the attacks by the terrorist group reaches more than 300 people in Israeli territory alone Hamas against Israel, this Saturday (7). The data comes from the local press, which cites medical and emergency sources.
The number of deaths could increase in the coming hours, given the serious condition of some of the injured, the number of which is around 1,600, according to sources. The latest bulletin from the Israeli Ministry of Health, at 9:30 pm local time — 3:30 pm Brasília time — indicates that there are another 1,452 people hospitalized, 18 of which are in critical condition.
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Earlier, the Prime Minister de Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, made a statement in which he asked the residents of the Gaza Strip to leave the area, because the Israeli army will use all the power it has to put an end to Hamas.
“The Israel Defense Forces are about to use all of their power to destroy Hamas’ capabilities. I say to the residents of Gaza: leave now because we will act with force. Every place where Hamas is deployed, hiding and operating, we will transform them into islands of rubble.”
On the Palestinian side, the number of deaths due to Israeli retaliation has reached 232, and the number of injured people has reached 1,700, according to sources from the Ministry of Health in Gaza, territory controlled by Hamas since 2007, when it expelled the movement’s forces. nationalist Fatah, from the president of the ANP (Palestinian National Authority), Mahmoud Abbas.
Gaza’s Health Ministry accused Israeli forces of deliberately attacking medical staff and hospitals, killing three health workers, wounding three others and destroying five ambulances.
According to Palestinian sources in the Gaza Strip, at least five buildings there have been destroyed by Israeli shelling, and hospitals are in a state of emergency.
In Gaza, thousands of civilians from towns in the north of the Strip, such as Beit Hanoun, Jabalia and Beit Lahia, fled to Gaza City to be sheltered in UN refugee agency schools due to heavy fighting.
Hamas, classified as a terrorist organization by the US, European Union and Israel, launched an unprecedented offensive this morning.
According to the group itself, more than 7,000 missiles were fired towards Israeli territory, in an operation that Hamas called the Al-Aqsa Flood.
See photos of the confrontation between Israel and Hamas militiamen
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