According to the Gaza Health Ministry, 24,100 people have been killed in the Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip since October 7
The Hamas-controlled Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip increased this Monday the number of victims in the Gaza Strip to 24,100 dead since the start of the Israeli offensive on October 7 in response to the terrorist attack on Israeli territory – most of them children and women on that day Islamist militia Hamas, in which more than 1,100 people died and around 250 were kidnapped and forcibly taken to the Palestinian enclave.
In the last 24 hours alone, 132 Palestinians have lost their lives and 252 were injured in the Mediterranean enclave, the ministry statement said. This number refers to the victims who have arrived at area hospitals in the last few hours, but authorities estimate that there are many people under the rubble. In fact, about 8,000 Palestinians are trapped in the ruins of buildings destroyed by Israeli army attacks.
According to Hamas, which has de facto controlled Gaza since 2007 and is considered a terrorist organization by the EU and the US, 60,834 people have been injured in this Palestinian territory since October 7th.
Although the figures come from Gaza's Health Ministry – that organization released them in a statement collected by Portal – the United Nations has confirmed the daily death figures published by the ministry.
The new balance of the Gaza Strip authorities comes at a time when the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has denounced that the people of the Gaza Strip are “in hell” after 100 days of a conflict in which they have been lives”. There are 300 attacks on the health system and humanitarian organizations are systematically prevented from providing aid.
In addition, in recent hours, the Israeli army has air-striked and destroyed a vehicle loaded with weapons in the town of Khan Younis, a Hamas stronghold in the southern Gaza Strip where it is believed to be hiding. their leader, Yahya Sinwar. “Israeli Defense Forces troops have identified two terrorists who loaded weapons into a vehicle,” the military said in a statement on Monday, describing an airstrike and the escape of the “two terrorists” to a nearby bunker. According to the statement, AK-47 rifles, hand grenades, explosives, ammunition and even diving equipment allegedly belonging to Hamas' naval forces were also seized from a command center in the area.