GAZA: Medical sources in the Gaza Strip said on Thursday that the death toll from the Israeli aggression against the enclave has risen to 72,819 while 172,894 others were wounded since the start of the offensive on Oct. 7, 2023.
The sources reported that Gaza Strip hospitals received six bodies and 39 wounded people in the past 48 hours.
They indicated that the number of slain Palestinians since the ceasefire on Oct. 11 has risen to 922, and the total number of wounded to 2,786, while 781 bodies have been recovered.
The same sources said that several victims are still under the rubble and in the streets, because ambulance and rescue teams have not been able to reach them yet.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that he had ordered the country’s military to take control of 70 percent of the Gaza Strip, in defiance of the terms of a fragile ceasefire that took effect in October.
“We are currently squeezing Hamas. We now control 60 percent of the territory in the strip. You know, we were at 50, we moved to 60. My directive is to move to ... 70 percent,” he said at a conference at a settlement in the occupied West Bank, according to a video broadcast by Israel’s Channel 12 network.
