Death toll rises to almost 35,400 and more than 79,300 injured in Israel’s offensive against Gaza

Gazan authorities report 83 dead and about 105 injured by Israeli attacks during the last day

May 18. (EUROPA PRESS) –

The authorities of the Gaza Strip, controlled by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), have estimated this Saturday at almost 35,400 Palestinians killed due to the offensive launched by the Israeli Army after the attacks carried out on October 7 by the group. Islamist and other Palestinian militias.

The Gaza Ministry of Health has stressed in a statement that “the toll of Israeli aggression has increased to 35,386 martyrs and 79,366 wounded since October 7” after 225 of “Israeli aggression”, before highlighting that the Israeli Army committed five “massacres” during the last 24 hours, with a balance of 83 dead and 105 injured.

He has also warned that an unspecified number of victims remain “under the rubble” and “lying on the roads”, without emergency teams having been able to recover these bodies and given the warnings about the risk of disease outbreaks derived from this situation. .

At the beginning of May, the Civil Defense of Gaza put the number missing at around 10,000 since the start of the offensive, so it is feared that the death toll is much higher, amid the new intensification of the Israeli offensive against northern Gaza. and the increase in bombings and raids in Rafá, on the border with Egypt.