Hamas claims four Israeli hostages killed in recent Israeli bombings in Gaza

The Islamic movement Hamasthat actually governs the Gaza stripassured this Monday that four Israeli hostages died during the recent attacks that Israel made in the Palestinian enclave within the framework of the new war.

“The occupation bombings during the night and today Gaza strip they caused the death of four enemy prisoners and the martyrdom of those who held them captive,” said Ay Ubaida, spokesperson for Al Qasam Brigades, armed wing of Hamas.

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Israel was caught off guard on Saturday morning by a massive Hamas offensive – a movement considered terrorist by Israel, the United States and the European Union – which included the launch of thousands of rockets and the infiltration of an unknown number of militiamen into Israeli territory, who massacred civilians and kidnapped more than 100 people to exchange them for Palestinian prisoners.

On the same Saturday, Israel declared a state of war and began a counterattack with bombers over the Gaza Strip and the hunt for militiamen in Israeli territory.

The exchange of aerial projectiles did not stop and on Monday morning there was still fighting inside Israel in at least seven points with the presence of Hamas militiamen.

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A spokesman for the Israeli army told EFE this Monday that His troops already “have control of communities around the Gaza Strip, but the fight didn’t stop and “There are still encounters with terrorists in the area.”

Israel says it will focus its attacks on strategic Hamas structuresbut the authorities of Gaza strip They indicated that the majority of Israeli bombing targets are “residential towers, buildings and civil installations, as well as mosques”, which caused a large number of victims, “most of them women and children”.

Since the start of the war last Saturday, the death toll in Israel has exceeded 700 and there are more than 2,200 injured, while the Gaza Strip has recorded at least 493 deaths, including 91 children, and 2,751 injured, including 244 minors.

Source: Elcomercio

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