Hamas has never said how many of its members have been killed.įootage captures widespread destruction in the streets of Khan Younis – video On Sunday, the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said: “The war is exacting a very heavy cost from us however we have no choice to continue to fight.” At least some of the weekend’s Israeli casualties were killed in friendly fire incidents, two Israeli newspapers reported.Īlso on Sunday, an Israeli military spokesperson said its forces had killed 8,000 Palestinian fighters, saying that the figure was drawn from accounts of targeted strikes, battlefield tallies and interrogations of captives.
On Sunday morning the IDF announced the names of eight soldiers who were killed on top of another five announced killed in action on Saturday night, bringing the total to 154 combat losses since Israel declared war in response to Hamas’s 7 October attack on Israel in which militants killed 1,140 people and seized another 240 as hostages. Another six people were killed in a strike on a house in the central Bureij refugee camp and two in a strike in Rafah, the strip’s southernmost town, on the border with Egypt, the agency said. The Palestine Red Crescent Society reported an attack on one of its main bases in Khan Younis and said a 13-year-old child had been shot dead by an Israeli drone while inside the city’s al-Amal hospital.
