“October 7 Hamas assault killed 1,170 folks in southern Israel.”
Jerusalem:
President Isaac Herzog mentioned Sunday in a press release marking six months of battle that Israel is preventing a “bloody and tough battle.”
“Tomorrow at 6:29 a.m. (3:29 p.m. Japan time), a brutal terrorist assault and a horrific bloodbath will happen,” Herzog mentioned on Saturday, referring to the Oct. 7 Hamas assault on southern Israel that sparked the battle. It’s been six months since then.”
“Six months have handed since this crime in opposition to our sisters and brothers, in opposition to our nation and in opposition to humanity. Six months of a bloody and tough battle,” he mentioned, including that the president’s function is basically ceremonial.
Herzog’s remarks got here after the army introduced it had recovered the physique of hostage Elad Katsir, who was killed in Gaza captivity in January.
They additionally got here as tens of 1000’s of Israelis protested in opposition to right-wing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s dealing with of the battle.
The Oct. 7 Hamas assault killed 1,170 folks in southern Israel, most of them civilians, in accordance with Israeli statistics.
Of the 250 hostages held by Palestinian armed teams, 129 stay in Gaza, and 34 of them have died, the army introduced.
Israeli retaliatory assaults in opposition to Hamas have killed at the least 33,137 folks within the Gaza Strip, the vast majority of them ladies and youngsters, in accordance with the Hamas-run area’s well being ministry.
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