TEL AVIV (dpa-AFX) – Israel continued to carry out air strikes in the Gaza Strip after the attack by the Islamist Hamas that left around 900 dead. The Israeli army said on Tuesday that more than 200 terrorist targets were bombed overnight. Among other things, a weapons depot of the Palestinian organization Hamas and facilities of the militant Palestinian group Islamic Jihad were attacked.
Hundreds of terrorists crossed the border into Israel on behalf of Hamas in a surprise attack on Saturday. In the massacre that followed, around 900 people were killed, men, women and children. More than 100 bodies were found in Beeri alone on Monday after the army regained control of the town. According to the Israeli Ministry of Health, more than 2,600 people were injured. Four of them are still in mortal danger, 155 are considered seriously injured.
According to the Ministry of Health there, at least 687 people were killed and more than 3,800 injured in massive Israeli counterstrikes in the Gaza Strip.
In addition, a spokesman for the Israeli army confirmed that the bodies of around 1,500 terrorists were in Israel. Hundreds more Palestinian attackers were captured./jak/DP/stw