More than 8,500 Palestinians have already been killed in Israeli bombardments in Gaza

More than 8,500 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip in Israeli bombardments since attacks by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas on October 7, the Gazan Health Ministry said today, adding that at least 50 people were killed on the day in an Israeli bombardment of a camp in the territory. In addition, the Israeli military confirmed that in this onslaught it killed Ibrahim Biari, a Hamas commander implicated in the October 7 attack on Israeli territory.” Its elimination was carried out as part of a broad offensive against terrorists and against the terrorist infrastructures of the Central Jabaliya Battalion, which had taken control of several civilian buildings in Gaza City,” the Israeli army told the AFP news agency. The bombardment damaged Hamas’ command and control in the area, as well as its capabilities to direct military activities” against Israeli soldiers deployed in the Gaza Strip, he added. A large number of terrorists who were with Biari were killed,” according to the same source, who added that tunnels used by Hamas were also destroyed.Prior to this attack, the Ministry of Health had reported 8,525 deaths in the Gaza Strip from Israeli bombardments since October 7. In a televised news conference, Hamas-run Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qidra said that of that total, 3,554 were children and 2,187 were women. Two weeks ago, trucks of humanitarian aid began entering the Gaza Strip through the Rafah crossing on the border with Egypt, but only those vehicles carrying food, water, medicine and medical supplies have been allowed to enter. Israel’s military intensified bombardment and ground actions more than three weeks after the conflict erupted over Hamas attacks, in which hundreds of militants infiltrated from Gaza killed more than 1,400 people, mostly civilians. More than 230 people were taken hostage and taken to Gaza, including about 20 Argentine nationals.

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