At least 162 people died and 296 were injured in the last 24 hours in Gaza in attacks by the Israeli Army, the Ministry of Health of the Palestinian Strip reported this Friday.
“The Israeli occupation commits 15 massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, leaving 162 martyrs and 296 injured during the last 24 hours,” according to a statement from the ministry, controlled by the Islamist group Hamas.
The Israeli military offensive launched in Gaza in response to a surprise attack carried out by Hamas in Israeli territory on October 7 has so far caused the death of 22,600 people and the wounding of 57,910, according to the ministry.
The official Palestinian Wafa agency reported numerous Israeli attacks along the coastal enclave, such as one that left five dead in a drone strike on a cemetery near the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza.
At least 162 dead and 296 injured in attacks by the Israeli Army in Gaza. EFE/EPA/MOHAMMED KNOW
“Israeli occupation planes and artillery continued to bomb houses, residential buildings and tents of displaced people in Khan Younis, in the south of the Strip, resulting in the death of at least eight citizens and wounding others,” according to this half.
In the town of Zawaida, in the center of the coastal enclave, at least two Gazans were killed in a bombing of homes by Israeli aircraft, while three other people were killed and five wounded in the Mawasi al-Qarara area, in the south, among other attacks cited by Wafa.
Attack on refugee camps
In addition, Israeli artillery attacked refugee camps such as Maghazi and Bureij and Israeli warships fired on beaches at Deir al Balah, in the center of the enclave.
For its part, the Israeli Army reported attacks by land, sea and air against about a hundred Hamas targets, including command centers, military posts, projectile launchers and weapons warehouses.
In a statement, he claimed to have eliminated a terrorist “cell” that was trying to attack an Israeli tank in Bureij, in an operation of ground troops with air support, and to have killed alleged militants of the Islamist group in combat in Khan Yunis, in the south, where his troops destroyed rocket launchers aimed at Israel.
Israeli forces also attacked a laboratory with chemicals to produce weapons, access to tunnels used by Hamas and launch sites for anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles, in operations in central Gaza in which they found numerous weapons and explosives.
At least 162 dead and 296 injured in attacks by the Israeli Army in Gaza. EFE/EPA/MOHAMMED KNOW
Israeli aviation destroyed “explosive-laden buildings and observation posts,” according to an Army statement. The armed wing of Hamas, the Al-Qassam Brigades, reported “fierce fighting” against the Israeli Army in different parts of Gaza, such as Khan Yunis, where they claimed to have hit three Israeli tanks with projectiles.
Israel declared war on Hamas, which de facto controls the Strip, on October 7, after a massive attack by the Islamist group that included the launching of rockets and the simultaneous infiltration of thousands of militiamen who massacred some 1,200 people and kidnapped another 250 in towns near Gaza.
The Israeli Army launched a strong offensive against the Palestinian enclave, where it is feared that in addition to the deaths confirmed by the Gazan authorities, some 8,000 people may be missing under the rubble of buildings destroyed in the bombings.
Israeli aviation launches attacks against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon
This Friday, Israeli aircraft attacked positions of the Shiite group Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, in the border area with Israel where hostilities have been going on for almost three months.
An Israeli soldier scans the horizon from one of the tanks that the Army gathers on the border with the Gaza Strip. EFE/Abir Sultan
Israeli warplanes launched strikes on the Lebanese areas of Ayta ash Shab and Majdal Zun, according to a statement from the Israeli Army.
The Army claimed to have attacked infrastructure, military posts and a place from which alleged members of the Lebanese Shiite group operated.
Hezbollah claimed on Thursday to have destroyed “espionage” equipment at an Israeli military post, in a series of attacks claimed by this armed formation.
The border is experiencing its greatest tension since 2006
The Israeli-Lebanese border is experiencing its greatest tension since the war between Hezbollah and Israel in 2006, following a resurgence in aggression by pro-Palestinian militias the day after the outbreak of the war between the Islamist group Hamas and Israel in Gaza. last October 7th.
Hostilities have increased even more after the bombing that killed Saleh Al Arouri, deputy head of Hamas, in Beirut on Tuesday, in an action attributed to Israel, which neither recognized nor denied the operation.
Since the beginning of hostilities in the area, at least 177 deaths have been recorded: 13 in Israel – 9 soldiers and 4 civilians – and 164 in Lebanon, including 127 members of Hezbollah, 16 members of Palestinian militias, one soldier and 20 civilians. -among them three journalists and three children-.
Israel has deployed more than 200,000 troops to its northern border, where violence has also displaced thousands of residents, with some 80,000 people evacuated from communities in northern Israel and more than 70,000 fleeing southern Lebanon.
The displaced in Gaza exceed two million according to the authorities of the Strip
The number of people displaced by the war in Gaza exceeds two million, the majority of the population of the Palestinian Strip, of about 2.4 million inhabitants, the Government of the enclave denounced this Friday.
The destruction of infrastructure by the Israeli Army’s attacks, many of which are impossible to repair, further aggravates the acute humanitarian crisis, according to a statement from the Gazan Government, under the control of the Islamist group Hamas. With EFE
