Gaza MoH: 230 martyrs, 1700 injured after Israeli aggression

By Al Mayadeen English
Source: Al Mayadeen
8 Oct 2023 00:06

The spokesperson for the Ministry of Interior and National Security reports that two residential houses in Rafah were bombed.

A ball of fire and smoke rise from an explosion on a Palestinian apartment tower following an Israeli air strike in Gaza City, Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023 (AP)

The number of Palestinian martyrs following the Israeli aggression on Gaza has risen to 232, with 1697 wounded, according to a statement by the Gazan Ministry of Health.

The Ministry reported that its medical teams are tirelessly working in operating rooms and intensive care units to save dozens of critical conditions.

The statement also confirmed the activation of the emergency plan by the Ministry of Health.

Iyad al-Buzm, the spokesperson for the Ministry of Interior and National Security, announced that Israeli occupation aircraft had destroyed two residential houses in the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, resulting in several casualties.

He added that civil defense teams, medical services, and the police are making great efforts to evacuate a number of martyrs and injured individuals, including women and children, of the Abo Quta family house after Israeli aircraft destroyed it over the heads of its inhabitants in the city of Rafah.

Al-Buzm emphasized that the claims made by the occupation army that the towers and residential buildings destroyed by its warplanes are used for military purposes are baseless and untrue. He added that these claims are intended to justify its crimes against Palestinian civilians.

Al-Mayadeen correspondent to Gaza reported that Israeli occupation aircraft also bombed a house in the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood in the southern Gaza Strip.

After the Israeli occupation forces targeted the 14-story Palestine tower in Gaza which includes offices of various media institutions, al-Qassam Brigades spokesperson Abo Obeida warned that the resistance's retaliation will be "earth-shattering".

"The occupation's airstrike on the Palestine Tower in central Gaza will force 'Tel Aviv' to stand on one leg as it awaits our retaliation."

In the same context, Al Mayadeen's correspondent to Gaza said that the targeting of the Palestine Tower could constitute a turning point in the war: such that the Resistance will not allow the targeting of civilians to go unanswered.

Shortly afterward, it was reported that Hamas fired 150 rockets toward "Tel Aviv".

Earlier today, Israeli occupation Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that "Israel is at war" after Hamas fighters initiated a large-scale surprise attack on settlements in the Gaza envelope.

In a filmed statement published several hours after the Palestinian Resistance launched Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, Netanyahu confirmed that he convened the heads of the Israeli security establishment and directed that Palestinian Resistance fighters who crossed into Gaza envelope settlements be neutralized.