TEL AVIV (dpa-AFX) – The Israeli military says it has carried out a total of 4,300 attacks since ground operations began in the Gaza Strip around two weeks ago. The air force and ground troops were involved, the army said on Telegram on Monday. Among other things, hundreds of firing positions for anti-tank missiles and around 300 tunnel shafts were hit. Around 3,000 targets were “terrorist infrastructure”. More than 100 of those targets were equipped with explosive devices.
Hundreds of command and control centers of the Islamist Palestinian organization Hamas were also attacked, it said. The military’s information could not initially be independently verified. Army videos showed, among other things, airstrikes on collapsing buildings and soldiers in combat gear running between destroyed houses.
On October 7, terrorists from Hamas and other groups killed around 1,200 people and kidnapped around 240 hostages to the Gaza Strip in massacres and attacks in the Israeli border area. The Israeli armed forces then carried out massive air strikes and moved ground troops into the densely populated coastal strip.
The number of Palestinians killed in the Gaza Strip has risen to more than 11,000, according to the Hamas-controlled Ministry of Health. The information cannot currently be independently verified./jak/DP/mis