23,000 Palestinians killed by IDF since Oct 7
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A total of 23,084 Palestinians have been killed and 58,926 have been injured in Israeli strikes on Gaza since October 7, the Gaza health ministry said in a statement on Monday.
Some 249 Palestinians were killed and 510 were wounded in the previous 24 hours, the ministry added, reports Al Arabiya.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday that Israeli forces will not stop the war in Gaza against Hamas until all the goals are achieved, according to a statement released by his office.
On Sunday, Israeli army launched intensive air attacks in Khan Younis and other areas in southern Gaza, killing at least 82, according to the official Palestinian news agency WAFA.
On Saturday, thousands of protesters took to the street of Tel Aviv, urging the Israeli government to immediately reach an agreement with Hamas on the release of detained individuals. Protesters also required the resignation of Netanyahu, the dissolution of the parliament, and early elections.
Since the latest round of Israeli-Palestinian conflict broke out on Oct 7, 2023, over 85 percent of the population have become displaced across Gaza Strip, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East said on Saturday.
Three months into its battle with Gaza-based Hamas, Israel’s army says its focus has moved from the northern Gaza Strip to “dismantling” fighters in the centre and south of the Hamas-ruled Palestinian territory.
In the southern city of Khan Yunis, troops and warplanes overnight Sunday-Monday struck 30 targets which a military statement described as “significant.” These included underground targets and weapons storage facilities, it said.
A drone also killed 10 fighters “preparing to launch rockets toward Israeli territory,” the statement added. Also overnight, the military said it had hit “numerous Hezbollah targets” in Lebanon.
Israel and Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah movement, a Hamas ally, have engaged in regular cross-border fire during the war that began an October 7 with Hamas’s unprecedented resistance campaign against Israel.
But a strike last week in a Beirut stronghold of Hezbollah has been a major factor contributing to rising fears of spreading conflict.
A US Defense Department official has told AFP that Israel carried out the strike that killed Hamas’s deputy leader Saleh al-Aruri.
Israel has responded with relentless bombardment and a ground invasion that have killed at least 23,084 people, most of them women and children, according to the Gaza health ministry.
On Monday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was holding talks on Gaza in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia before heading on to Israel, seeking to kick start concerted peace efforts that he says are needed to avoid a wider conflagration.
