60 Bod!es Found After Israeli Operation In Gaza City
Hamas said Israel’s operation there had left “more than 300 residential units and more than 100 business destroyed”.
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Hamas’s October 7 attack on southern Israel that sparked the war resulted in the deaths of 1,195 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on Israeli figures.
The militants also seized hostages, 116 of whom remain in Gaza, including 42 the military says are dead.
Israel responded with a military offensive that has killed at least 38,345 people in Gaza, also mostly civilians, according to figures from Gaza’s health ministry.
– ‘Dangerous combat zone’ –
The Israeli army dropped leaflets on Wednesday warning “everyone in Gaza City” that it would “remain a dangerous combat zone”.
The leaflets urged residents to flee, and set out designated escape routes from the area where the UN humanitarian office said up to 350,000 people had been sheltering.
The UN said the latest evacuations “will only fuel mass suffering for Palestinian families, many of whom have been displaced many times”, and who face “critical levels of need”.
Hamas official Hossam Badran told AFP that Israel was “hoping that the resistance will relinquish its legitimate demands” in truce negotiations.
But “the continuation of massacres compels us to adhere to our demands”, he said.
Israel’s military said operations were also continuing in the Rafah area where “dozens” of militants were killed over the past day.
The military said it responded with air and ground strikes after five rockets were fired from the area towards Israel on Thursday.
The military separately acknowledged Thursday it had “failed” to protect Kibbutz Beeri, where more than 100 people died during Hamas’s October 7 attacks.
A summary of the inquiry, made public after being presented to kibbutz residents, said there had been a “lack of coordination” in the military response.
