The Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip reported that 390 people were martyred and more than 700 were injured during the past two days, while the total number of martyrs reached 20,57 martyrs since the seventh of last October.
The Ministry also reported that the death toll since the start of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip had risen to 20,57 martyrs, while the number of wounded reached 53,320.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent said that 5 Palestinians were martyred and others were injured in an Israeli raid that targeted a house in the city of Rafah, south of the besieged Gaza Strip.
In the same context, the government media office in Gaza announced that the total number of journalists who were martyred at the hands of the Israeli army since the beginning of the war reached 98 journalists.
The office said in a statement, “Israel assassinated these journalists during its brutal war on Gaza in an attempt to obscure the Palestinian narrative and an attempt to obscure the truth, but the occupation failed miserably in that.”
In addition to the massive human losses, the Israeli war on Gaza left massive infrastructure destruction and an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe, according to official Palestinian sources.
Withdrawal of the Golani Brigade
For its part, the Israeli army said that an officer and a soldier were killed, and 3 others were seriously injured during the battles taking place north and south of the Gaza Strip, bringing the death toll to 144 since the start of the ground incursion into Gaza.
The Israeli army said that it had deepened its operations in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, during the last three weeks.
The occupation army broadcast images that it said were of the destruction of Palestinian resistance infrastructure, adding that during the past week it sent reinforcements from the Armored Brigade and from the elite commando forces in Khan Yunis.
In a remarkable development on the ground, Israeli media reported the withdrawal of Golani Brigade soldiers from Gaza after 60 days of fighting in which they suffered heavy losses.
Israeli Channel 13 reported that Golani soldiers, who are classified as among the Israeli elite forces, left Gaza under the pretext of reorganizing their ranks.
42 Golani soldiers and officers, including the commander of the 13th Battalion, were killed in the battles in the Shujaiya neighborhood in Gaza.
