2023-12-06 04:42:22
An ever deadlier war. The Hamas government announced on Tuesday that Israeli military operations in the Gaza Strip had killed 16,248 people since the war began on October 7. A toll difficult to confirm, but which does not seem inconsistent with statements made this week by senior Israeli military officials who indicated that approximately two civilians were killed for every Hamas fighter who died in the Gaza Strip, considering it ” more or less accurate” the information according to which 5,000 Hamas fighters were killed.
The dead Palestinians, the majority killed in airstrikes, are more than 70% children (7,112) and women (4,885), said in a press release the press office of the Palestinian Islamist movement, which took the lead. control of the Gaza Strip in 2007.
This Tuesday, an Israeli strike on a school housing Palestinians displaced by the war left at least 25 dead in Khan Younes, the Hamas Ministry of Health said. Dozens of injured people, as well as bodies recovered from the rubble of the Ma’an school, a district of Khan Younès, were taken to the Nasser hospital in this town in the south of the small coastal territory, targeted for several days by intense bombing by the Israeli army.
Many Gazans have found refuge in schools or hospitals since the start of Israeli bombings in the Palestinian enclave, carried out in retaliation for an unprecedented Hamas attack in Israel on October 7. This caused 1,200 deaths according to the Israeli authorities. After experiencing a slight respite during a seven-day truce, Gaza residents are now trapped in an ever-shrinking area with nowhere to go, with access to Egypt closed to them and Israel imposing a “siege.” complete “.
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