There are over 350 dead
More than 350 people died on Tuesday, following Israeli army attacks against the Gaza Strip, the Gaza Ministry of Health, controlled by Hamas, said.
The new balance reports a very significant increase in the number of deadly victims, the previous one indicated 205 deaths.
A ministry official, Mohammed Zaqout, told France-Ipress that most victims are Palestinian children and women, and there are « hundreds of injured, dozens of which they are in critical condition. »
In addition to air attacks, tanks were also registered in the city of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip.
The east of Rafah and the city of Gaza, in the north, were others from the targets of the Israelites, who resumed attacks on the Palestinian enclave.
Palestinian media are advancing that the deputy director of the Hamas Interior Ministry, Mahmoud Abu Watfa, is one of the deadly victims of the attacks.
Reuters said the Israelite army has already issued an order of evacuation to several neighborhoods in Gaza.
Israel's Minister of Defense said the attacks will continue in Faiiza de Gaza until all hostages still retained by Hamas are released.
« The gates of hell will open in Gaza » if the hostages are not released, said Minister Israel Katz.
« We will not stop fighting until all our hostages are at home and we have achieved all the goals of the war, » he added.