Hamas announces a death toll of more than 7,000, including nearly 3,000 children. The Hamas health ministry announced Thursday that 7,028 people, including 2,913 children, had been killed since Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip began on October 7. According to the ministry, 1,709 women were killed and 18,484 people injured. On its 20th day, this war between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement is the deadliest since Israel’s unilateral withdrawal from this small Palestinian territory in 2005, two years before Hamas took power there.
35 French dead in Hamas attacks according to a new report. Thirty-five French people have been killed in attacks by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas against Israel since October 7, and nine are missing, according to a new report Thursday from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. “France deplores the tragic death of new French nationals, which brings to 35 the toll of French victims in the terrorist attacks carried out by Hamas against Israel,” indicates the Quai press release, specifying that of the nine missing, “some are Hamas hostages.
Hamas “estimates” that “nearly 50” Israeli hostages have been killed since the start of Israeli raids. The military wing of Palestinian Hamas “estimated” Thursday that “nearly fifty” Israeli hostages held in the Gaza Strip had been killed by Israeli strikes since the start of the war on October 7. “The Qassam Brigades estimate that the number of Zionist hostages who were killed in the Gaza Strip due to Zionist bombings and massacres reached nearly fifty,” the Palestinian Islamist group said in a message on Telegram, a claim which could not be independently verified.
The Israeli army claims to have shot dead the deputy head of Hamas’s intelligence directorate. The IDF announced this Thursday on its Telegram channel that it had killed Shadi Barud, the deputy head of the Hamas intelligence directorate, in a strike on the Gaza Strip. According to the Israeli army, “he is responsible for planning numerous terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians” and in particular those perpetrated on October 7 alongside Hamas leader Yahya Sinouar.
Exchanges of accusations at the UN platform. Representatives of Israel and Arab countries exchanged sharp accusations Thursday at the UN General Assembly, which in turn is examining the war between Israel and Hamas after the Security Council’s failure to act. “Israel is turning Gaza into a perpetual hell on Earth. The trauma will haunt entire generations,” said Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi on behalf of the 22 countries of the Arab group. “The right to self-defense is not a license to kill with impunity, collective punishment is not self-defense, it is a war crime,” he asserted.
2023-10-27 19:11:00
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