According to the Gaza Health Ministry, the Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip has killed more than 25,400 people since October 7
The Hamas-controlled Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip increased this Tuesday the number of casualties in the Gaza Strip to 25,490 dead since the start of the Israeli offensive on October 7 in response to the terrorist attack on Israeli territory – most of them children and women on that day Islamist militia Hamas, in which more than 1,100 people died and around 250 were kidnapped and forcibly taken to the Palestinian enclave.
In the last 24 hours alone, 195 Palestinians have lost their lives and 354 were injured in the Mediterranean enclave, the ministry statement said. This number refers to the victims who have arrived at area hospitals in the last few hours, but authorities estimate that there are many people under the rubble. In fact, between 7,000 and 8,000 Palestinians are trapped in the ruins of buildings destroyed by Israeli army attacks.
According to Hamas, which has de facto controlled Gaza since 2007 and is considered a terrorist organization by the EU and the US, around 63,350 people have been injured in this Palestinian territory since October 7th.
Although the figures come from Gaza's Health Ministry – that organization released them in a statement collected by Portal – the United Nations has confirmed the daily death figures published by the ministry.
The authorities' new assessment comes after the Israeli army announced that its troops had completed the siege of the southern city of Khan Yunis, the second largest city in the Gaza Strip and the epicenter of its offensive in recent weeks. Israel, which has also claimed to have killed dozens of militants in the past 24 hours, considers the city a Hamas stronghold.