600 soldiers killed since 7 Oct: IDF
AFP :
The Israeli military on Monday announced the death of a soldier in fighting in the Gaza Strip, bringing the total number of troops killed since the 7 October Hamas attacks on Israel to 600.
The military announced the death of 20-year-old soldier Nadav Cohen, and updated its overall toll to 600 killed since the attacks that triggered the war.
Meanwhile, Israeli forces have ended their two-week raid in and around Gaza’s largest hospital, the Al-Shifa complex in Gaza City, and pulled back from the area, the army said Monday.
“Troops have completed precise operational activity in the area of the Shifa Hospital and exited the area of the hospital,” the military said.
The Israeli military has withdrawn from Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital after a two-week raid, leaving behind a trail of destruction.
Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) says departments at al-Shifa Hospital were “set on fire”, and bodies of “executed” civilians are lying around the complex.
At least four people were killed in an Israeli air attack on the courtyard of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza, according to WHO.
Tens of thousands of Israelis have taken to the streets of Tel Aviv condemning the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and demanding an immediate deal for the release of captives.
At least 32,845 Palestinians have been killed and 75,392 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7.
The death toll in Israel from Hamas’s October 7 attack stands at 1,139, with dozens still held captive.
The Israeli military has withdrawn from Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital after a two-week raid, leaving behind a trail of destruction.
Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) says departments at al-Shifa Hospital were “set on fire”, and bodies of “executed” civilians are lying around the complex.
At least four people were killed in an Israeli air attack on the courtyard of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza, according to WHO.
Tens of thousands of Israelis have taken to the streets of Tel Aviv condemning the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and demanding an immediate deal for the release of captives.
At least 32,845 Palestinians have been killed and 75,392 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7. The death toll in Israel from Hamas’s October 7 attack stands at 1,139, with dozens still held captive.
Israel said it had battled Palestinian militants hiding inside Gaza City’s Al-Shifa Hospital, killed at least 200 enemy fighters and recovered large stockpiles of weapons, explosives and cash.
The health ministry in Hamas-ruled Gaza said that, after heavy Israeli air strikes and tank fire, “the scale of the destruction inside the complex and the buildings around it is very large”.
“Dozens of bodies, some of them decomposed, have been recovered from in and around the Al-Shifa medical complex,” it said, adding that the hospital was now “completely out of service”.
Several doctors and civilians at the damaged complex told AFP that at least 20 bodies had been found, some of which appeared to have been driven over by military vehicles.
Several were found close to the west entrance to the complex, which the Israeli army used during its departure from the hospital grounds on Monday.
“Bodies… The tanks went over them. Destruction. Children. Innocents.
Unarmed civilians. They (soldiers) went over them,” one witness said, asking not to be named.
An AFP correspondent saw one badly decomposed body bearing tyre marks, although it was not known when it was driven over.
Battles have also flared around other Gaza hospitals almost six months into the war sparked by Hamas’s October 7 attacks which have destroyed swathes of the besieged coastal territory.
The Hamas government press office said the army had blown up more than 20 houses within 24 hours in the main southern city of Khan Yunis, where battles have raged around the Nasser and Al-Amal hospitals.
