The number of Palestinians who died following Israel’s military offensive against the Gaza Strip, following attacks perpetrated on October 7 by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), now exceeds 34,500, according to Palestinian authorities. enclave, controlled by the Islamist group.
Gaza’s health ministry said “the death toll from Israeli aggression rose to 34,535 martyrs and 77,704 wounded,” accusing Israeli forces of committing “five massacres” in the past 24 hours, with a toll of 47 dead and 61 injured transported to hospitals.
In addition, an unspecified number of victims remains “under the rubble” or “abandoned on the roads”, without emergency teams being able to recover these bodies. The Gaza authorities estimate the number of missing since the start of the offensive to be around 7,000.
The Ministry of Health is encouraging relatives of the deceased and missing to fill out an online form to “update all data in the Ministry of Health’s records”, fearing that the number of victims could be even higher.
Furthermore, the Israeli army claimed to have carried out new bombings over the past day against “tunnels” and “terrorist infrastructures” in the north of the Gaza Strip, after intercepting on Monday a projectile fired from the enclave.
“Combat operations attacked operational tunnels, an anti-tank missile launch point and terrorist infrastructure in the area from where the firing was carried out in the northern Gaza Strip,” they said, specifying that the projectile fired from the enclave, which was intercepted, was aimed at the town of Sderot.
Attacks were also carried out against “several terrorist targets” in the central area of the Gaza Strip, where military forces are deployed in the Netzarim corridor, which extends from near the border facing the town of Beeri to ‘to the coast, passing between Gaza City and Nuseirat.
Finally, the death of two soldiers during fighting recorded in Gaza in the last hours was confirmed, bringing to 263 the number of soldiers killed in combat since the start of the ground offensive against the Gaza Strip, which has been active since more than six months in the absence of a ceasefire agreement.
