At least 5,087 people have been killed in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip by Israeli bombings in retaliation for the Palestinian Islamist group’s attack on October 7, which left some 1,400 dead and more than 220 kidnapped in Israel.
Of the total number of deaths in Gaza, according to figures released this Monday by the Strip’s Ministry of Health, 40% are children and 22% are women or the elderly.
These figures are also added to the 15,273 people who needed medical attention in the Palestinian enclave since the beginning of the war with Israel.
In the last few hours alone, at least 45 Palestinians have died, 23 of them in the Khan Younis area – in southern Gaza – and 17 in a bombing against a house in the north of the Strip, according to the official news agency. Palestinian, Wafa.
2 more Palestinians killed by Israeli fire in West Bank
To the deaths in the Strip we must add the more than 90 deaths registered in the West Bank.
This same Monday, two Palestinians were shot dead by the Israeli Army during a military raid in a refugee camp north of Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank, bringing to 95 the number of Palestinians killed in this territory by Israeli fire since the beginning of the war.
In addition, the Ministry of Health of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) has reported that four other Palestinians were injured and 20 were detained during the raid.
According to Wafa, the deceased young people were hit by Army shots after having thrown stones at the troops who were operating in the field.
Asked by EFE about this incident, the Israeli military spokesperson reported that its troops detained 15 suspects in the raid, of which 10 were “Hamas agents.”
During the operation, “suspects threw explosive devices and stone blocks from rooftops at Israeli security forces, who responded with gunfire.”
These episodes follow the death yesterday of eight Palestinians in different incidents in the occupied West Bank, which is experiencing its highest spike in violence since the Second Intifada.
Hostages held by Hamas in Gaza number at least 222
In Israel, the dead amount to 1,400, of which 308 are soldiers who died in the massive Hamas attack.
In addition, the Palestinian militia kidnapped 222 people, who were taken to the Gaza Strip.
In a televised speech, the official spokesman for the Israeli Army, Daniel Hagari, stated that among the hostages there are “several foreign citizens”, including 13 Latin Americans and two Spaniards.
The hostage figure no longer includes Judith Ranan and her teenage daughter Natalie, two Americans whom Hamas released on Friday night for “humanitarian reasons.”
“We continue to act by all available means to ensure that the abductees return home safely,” added Hagari during his statement today.
Israeli attacks on Gaza continue
The Israeli Army today bombed 320 targets of the Islamist group Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, on the seventeenth consecutive day of hostilities in the area.
According to a military spokesman, Israeli forces have attacked “tunnels housing Hamas terrorists, dozens of command centers, military compounds and observation posts, as well as “targets that posed a threat to forces in the area surrounding the enclave.” , which are preparing for ground operations.”
Furthermore, according to figures released by the Press Office of the Hamas government in Gaza, more than 60% of the population of the Strip has had to be internally displaced by Israeli bombings, which have totally or partially destroyed half of the homes of the enclave.
The front in southern Lebanon worsens
On the Israeli side, the number of displaced people rose to more than 120,000 this Sunday, after the evacuation of new towns on the border with Lebanon due to the intensification of exchanges of fire in the area, which is experiencing its moment of greatest tension since 2006. in parallel to the war with Hamas in Gaza.
A military spokesman reported that during the night, “the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) attacked a Hezbollah terrorist cell in Lebanese territory, along with an anti-tank missile launch site.”
The “terrorist cell” planned to launch an anti-tank missile toward the Israeli city of Shlomi, one of more than forty communities in northern Israel that have been evacuated for safety.
In addition, hours before, the Army reported that it had attacked a military complex and an observation post of the Shiite guerrilla and that a plane dismantled another “terrorist cell” that was operating armed near the border.
This escalation of tension on the border has already caused at least 47 deaths: 6 in Israel – 5 soldiers and a civilian – and 41 in Lebanon, among them a cameraman from the Reuters agency.
The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, yesterday visited the troops on the northern front where they are allocating more and more forces, and warned Hezbollah that if it enters the war “it will make the worst mistake of its life” and “will miss” the 2006 conflict.
A third convoy of 20 trucks enters Gaza
A third humanitarian aid convoy made up of twenty trucks entered today from the Egyptian Rafah crossing towards the Gaza Strip, after passing through another border post controlled by Israel to inspect the shipment.
According to an Egyptian security source, the trucks – carrying medicine, medical supplies and baby formula – have been diverted to the Israeli-controlled Al Awja crossing for inspection before being let into Gaza.
This is the third convoy with humanitarian aid to enter the Gaza Strip through Egypt, besieged by Israel in punishment for the attack by the Islamist group Hamas on October 7.
With today’s trucks, there are already 54 that have entered since last Saturday.
Last night, US President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed that “there will be a continued flow of assistance” to Gaza, during a telephone conversation.
On the other hand, the Israeli Army has acknowledged that yesterday it “mistakenly” fired on an Egyptian military post in the border area, in an incident that caused minor injuries to some border guards. With EFE
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