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At least 169 Israeli soldiers died in fighting with the Palestinian Islamic group Hamas since launching a broad surprise offensive on Saturday, the army said this Wednesday.
“We inform the families of 169 Israeli soldiers killed in combat,” military spokesman Daniel Hagari told the press, revealing that the family members of 60 people kidnapped and taken to Link They were also contacted.
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On the other hand, Israel continued to intensely bomb the besieged Gaza Strip this Wednesday, partially transformed into a field of ruins, in response to the offensive by the Palestinian Islamic movement Hamas, in a war that has already caused thousands of deaths.
The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu called Hamas’ surprise offensive, launched on Saturday, “savagery not seen since the Holocaust.”” perpetrated by Nazism, and promised that his country “will win through strength”.
The attack of Hamas left more than 1,200 dead on Israeli soil, including 169 soldiers, according to the army, as well as hundreds of civilians massacred by Islamists in agricultural cooperatives and at a party held on Saturday.
Dozens of people are also listed as absent or as hostages of Hamas.
Israel responded by bombing the impoverished and overpopulated Palestinian enclave since Saturday, mobilizing 300,000 reservists and deploying tens of thousands of soldiers around it. Link and on the northern border with Lebanonwhere this Wednesday he once again came across fire with the pro-Iranian movement Hezbollah, an ally of Hamas.
At least 1,055 people died and 5,184 were injured in the Gaza Strip, according to local authorities. Hamas said it lost two senior officials in Israeli operations.
“We are trapped, we don’t know where to go and we can’t stay because our apartment is covered in broken glass and shrapnel.“Mohammed Mazen, a 38-year-old Gazan father of three, told AFP.
In hospitals, the situation is catastrophic and Al Shifa hospital, in Gaza city, is full of injured people. “Some die before” they are treated, says a doctor.
The UN stated that the total siege of the Strip, where more than 260,000 people had to abandon their homes, is “prohibited” under international humanitarian law.
Source: Elcomercio
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