Israel has revised the death toll from the Hamas attack on its territory on October 7 from 1,400 to 1,200 after identifying the bodies as men from the Islamist movement, a defense ministry spokesman said on Friday. Foreign Affairs.
Israeli authorities have “updated” this report because they now believe that “many of the bodies that were not identified” are of people involved in “the Hamas terrorist attack, rather than Israeli victims,” Lior said Haiat.
That updated death toll of 1,200 deaths, most of whom were civilians killed on the day of the Oct. 7 attack by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, was used in a State Department news release Friday. “Hamas terrorists murdered around 1,200 people in cold blood and kidnapped 240, including babies, children, women and the elderly,” it said.
A complex identification task
Since October 7 and the attack on a scale and with violence never seen since the founding of Israel in 1948, the Israeli authorities have been carrying out a complex work to identify the bodies found in various locations in southern Israel. The previous figure of 1,400 was gradually reached in the week after the attacks and has remained stable since then.
For more than a month, Israel has declared war to “destroy” Hamas, which is in power in the Gaza Strip. According to the Hamas Ministry of Health, the incessant Israeli bombardment of this area has claimed more than 11,000 lives, mostly civilians, including more than 4,500 children.