Israeli forces say they have carried out around 10,000 airstrikes on targets in the closed Palestinian territory since the start of the Gaza war. The military announced on Sunday that targets in the Gaza Strip include command centers, tunnels and weapons depots of Palestinian terrorist organizations. The attacks continued on Sunday.
More than three weeks ago, the army announced that the army had attacked a total of more than 15,000 targets in the coastal area since the start of the war. Due to the high number of civilian casualties in the Gaza Strip as a result of the massive attacks, international criticism of the actions of the Israeli army is growing.
The army, in turn, accuses the Islamist Hamas of launching attacks from residential areas and hospitals and using civilians as human shields.
Hamas attack on October 7 causes war
The current Gaza war was sparked by the worst massacre in Israel’s history, which Hamas terrorists and other extremist groups carried out in Israel near the border on October 7. More than 1,200 people were killed.
Hamas authority: 15,500 people already killed
Israel has therefore set itself the goal of putting an end to the rule of Hamas in the Gaza Strip. More than 15,500 people have been killed and thousands injured in Israeli attacks, according to Hamas’ health authority. According to the UN, about 80 percent of the densely populated Gaza Strip’s approximately 2.2 million residents are now internally displaced. According to Israeli reports, extremist Palestinians have fired about 10,000 rockets from the Gaza Strip into Israel since the start of the war.
The Israeli army continues its bombing campaign
The Israeli army continued its bombing on Sunday. Fighter planes and helicopters attacked “terrorist targets” during the night, including tunnel shafts, command centers and weapons depots, the Israeli army said in the morning. In addition, a combat drone operated by ground forces attacked and eliminated five terrorists from the Islamist Hamas group.
The day before, Israeli naval units also attacked Hamas terror targets and flanked the deployment of ground troops, it was said. These targets include terrorist infrastructure, Hamas naval vessels and weapons.
According to Israel, 800 tunnel shafts have been discovered in the Gaza Strip
According to Israel, more than 800 tunnel shafts have been found in the Gaza Strip since the start of the Gaza war. The army announced on Sunday that about 500 of them had already been destroyed. Explosives, among other things, were used. Some tunnel shafts connected strategic Hamas facilities underground, the statement said. The information could not initially be independently verified.
According to the military, the tunnel shafts were located in civilian residential areas, sometimes next to schools, kindergartens and mosques. Weapons were found in some of them. Israel accuses Hamas of using civilians as shields. Hamas rejects this.
Palestinians report deaths after attacks and raids in the south
Meanwhile, seven Palestinians were killed in a raid by Israeli forces near the city of Rafah, according to Palestinian authorities. Several people were also injured, the Hamas-controlled Interior Ministry said on Sunday. Rafah is located in the south of the Gaza Strip, on the border with Egypt.
Palestinian health officials say several people were killed in overnight airstrikes on the southern town of Al-Kharrara, near the town of Khan Younis. According to Palestinians, there were already attacks on Khan Younis and Rafah on Saturday, resulting in several deaths.
About 700 people were killed in attacks within 24 hours, according to a Hamas spokesman. The spokesman said there were numerous bodies among the rubble. There are also great difficulties in rescuing the injured and transporting them to hospitals. No place in the Gaza Strip is currently safe.
Source: Krone
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