War in Gaza Strip has left more than 37 thousand dead

MADRID (EUROPA PRESS) -The authorities of the Gaza Strip, controlled by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), put the number of Palestinians dead at more than 37 thousand and nearly 85 thousand wounded due to the military offensive launched by the Israeli Army against the Palestinian enclave after the attacks carried out on October 7 by the Islamist group and other Palestinian factions, which left around 1,200 dead and around 240 kidnapped.

“The balance of Israeli aggression amounts to 37,164 martyrs and 84,832 wounded since October 7,” the Gaza Ministry of Health detailed in a statement, in which it accused the Israeli Army of committing three “massacres.” “during the last day, with a total of 40 dead and 120 injured.

He also noted that there are an undetermined number of victims “under the rubble and on the roads.” The Gazan authorities have estimated 10,000 missing persons, which is why they have asked the relatives of the deceased and the missing to “complete their data” by registering through a link with the aim of completing the official data.

For its part, the Israeli Army indicated in a balance of operations published through its website that during the last day it has bombed “around 35 terrorist targets” in the Strip, including “military buildings”, “weapons warehouses”, “launch positions”, “observation posts”, “terrorist squads” and “other military infrastructure”.

In this way, they stated that the military “eliminated squads of armed terrorists in close-range clashes” in the city of Rafah, unleashed on May 6, shortly after Israel rejected a ceasefire proposal presented by Egypt and Qatar that had received the backing of Hamas. Tensions have been on the rise since then due to the intensification of the Israeli offensive despite international calls and an order from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to stop its attacks.