The number of fatalities in the Gaza Strip since tensions escalated in the Middle East has exceeded 4,000 according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza.
According to the ministry, about 4,137 Palestinians were killed, more than 13,000 suffered wounds. About a thousand more people, most of them children, are missing.
According to the Gaza Health Ministry, the shelling has knocked out of action at least seven medical facilities in the Strip, leaving them unable to serve the local population.
Tensions flared up on October 7 when militants from the Gaza-based Palestinian radical group Hamas staged a surprise incursion into Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip. In response, Israel announced a total blockade of the Gaza Strip and began delivering air strikes on the enclave and certain parts of Lebanon and Syria. Clashes are underway in the West Bank of the Jordan River as well.
The current conflict makes it the deadliest of the five Gaza wars.
According to the ministry, about 4,137 Palestinians were killed, more than 13,000 suffered wounds. About a thousand more people, most of them children, are missing.
According to the Gaza Health Ministry, the shelling has knocked out of action at least seven medical facilities in the Strip, leaving them unable to serve the local population.
Tensions flared up on October 7 when militants from the Gaza-based Palestinian radical group Hamas staged a surprise incursion into Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip. In response, Israel announced a total blockade of the Gaza Strip and began delivering air strikes on the enclave and certain parts of Lebanon and Syria. Clashes are underway in the West Bank of the Jordan River as well.
The current conflict makes it the deadliest of the five Gaza wars.
