2023-10-07 21:42:57
EFE Agency
10/7/2023 4:42 PM – UPDATED 10/7/2023 4:42 PM
Some 250 people have died in Israel as a result of Hamas’ multiple aggression, while retaliatory Israeli airstrikes have claimed the lives of 232 people in Gaza, according to the latest data confirmed by medical sources on both sides. The number of wounded in Israel rose to 1,450, according to medical sources cited by Hebrew media, while in the Strip they amount to 1,700, according to the count of the Gaza Ministry of Health, since this morning Hamas launched a surprise offensive once morest Israel by land, sea and air.
The situation is very delicate and the Israeli Ministry of Defense has declared a state of emergency throughout the country, while fighting continues in towns near the Strip, where there are still Hamas militiamen with Israeli hostages and facing Israeli troops.
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Since this morning, air attacks by Israel in Gaza and the launching of more than 3,000 rockets by Palestinian militias into Israeli territory continue, where there are still hundreds of members of Gaza militias fighting with Israeli forces in twenty points in Israel, according to an Army spokesman.
Israeli security forces next to the body of a Hamas militant killed south of the city of Ashkelon, on October 7, 2023. (EFE/EPA/ATEF SAFADI).
The Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry accused Israeli forces of deliberately attacking medical staff and hospitals, killing three health workers, wounding three others and destroying five ambulances.
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According to Palestinian sources in the Strip, at least five buildings have been destroyed in Gaza by Israeli bombings and hospitals are in a state of emergency due to the situation.
In Gaza, thousands of Gazan civilians from towns in the north of the Strip such as Beit Hanoun, Jabalia or Beit Lahia were evacuated and fled to Gaza City to be housed in schools run by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees due to the harsh conditions. of the confrontations.
According to local estimates, it is estimated that the number of militants currently still in Israel is much higher than the figure given by the Israeli authorities and might be hundreds or even more than a thousand members of the Al Qasam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, or the armed wing of the Islamist group Islamic Jihad.
The militants killed Israeli soldiers, held residents hostage in Israeli towns near the Strip and kidnapped around fifty people, according to Gaza sources and videos spread on social networks where soldiers, civilians and also immigrants are captured. Asians.
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