Twenty-nine people, including six children, have been killed in the Gaza Strip since the start of the outbreak of violence between Israel and the Islamic Jihad group, the Health Ministry in the Palestinian enclave announced on Sunday, correcting an earlier statement.
In a first statement, the ministry said 32 Palestinians had been killed since Friday in Israeli strikes. Shortly after, he indicated in a second message that the death toll was 29 and 253 wounded.
Record contradicted by Israel
Israeli authorities contradict this assessment and claim that Palestinian children were killed on Saturday by a failed Islamic Jihad rocket attack on Israel.
Since the start of its operation on Friday, Israel has claimed to be targeting sites belonging to Islamic Jihad, whose fighters and leaders have been killed, according to the Israeli military. Israeli forces also announced that they had arrested some 40 members of the organization in two days in the West Bank, Palestinian territory occupied since 1967 by the Jewish state.
In retaliation for the incursions into the Gaza enclave, the Palestinian group fired rockets at Israeli soil, most of them intercepted by the Israeli missile shield. Two people were slightly injured by shrapnel, according to emergency services.
Worst matchup since May 2021
This is the worst confrontation between the Jewish state and the armed organizations in Gaza since the May 2021 war, which in eleven days left 260 dead on the Palestinian side, including combatants, and 14 dead in Israel, including a soldier, according to the authorities. local. .
Since 2007, the Jewish state has imposed a blockade on Gaza, a territory of 2.3 million inhabitants governed by the Islamists of Hamas.
Source: BFM TV
