The Israeli Air Force attacked a ready-to-launch rocket launcher, located in a humanitarian zone in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, the press service of the army announced.
„The rocket launcher was aimed at Israeli territory and posed an immediate threat to Israeli civilians,” the statement said. “After the impact, secondary detonations were registered”, added the press service.
The department noted that “steps were taken prior to the strikes to reduce the risk of civilian injury”, among which the military listed “notifying the civilian population in the evacuation area” as well as “using precision-guided munitions and aerial surveillance.”
The number of dead, whose bodies have been found, as well as those buried under the rubble in the Gaza Strip, may exceed 43 thousand, the Commissioner General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency told journalists at a briefing Palestinian refugees in the Middle East Philip Lazzarini.
„We are talking about 43 thousand dead according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza. There are also those who are missing, buried under the rubble, what is their number? I don't know, but probably more than 43 thousand people died.
According to the latest data, the total number of victims of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict since October 2023. exceeded 43 thousand, more than 103 thousand people were injured.