Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip have killed at least 2,750 people and injured more than 9,700, the Palestinian Health Ministry said in a statement on Monday (16). In the West Bank, 58 people died and more than 1,250 were injured, the ministry added.
Since October 7, when Israel launched a counteroffensive following a Hamas attack on its territory, casualties in Gaza have been rising and have already surpassed the death toll from the 2014 Gaza-Israel conflict, which lasted around 50 days, a spokesman said. voice of the ministry on Sunday.
So far, 2014 had been the deadliest year on record in the Israel-Palestine conflict, with at least 2,251 Palestinians killed over the course of the war, according to data from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
In Israel, the number of deaths is around 1,300 people since the start of the conflict against Hamas.
Dozens of unidentified bodies were buried in mass graves in Gaza city, according to the head of the media office of the Hamas-controlled government.
“As dozens of other martyrs were arriving – children, babies, women, men, elderly people – we were inclined to fulfill our moral and legitimate duty to these martyrs by burying them. We prepared a mass grave in the emergency grave to bury those who were not identified,” he said. Salama Marouf in a video published on Sunday (15).
Verified social media videos CNN show dozens of bodies wrapped in white plastic brought from Shifa hospital in Gaza to a cemetery where they were placed in neat rows.
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Source: CNN Brasil
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