GAZA CITY, Nov 8 — At least 40,000 people have been killed, injured, or have gone missing in Israel’s ongoing attacks on the Gaza Strip since October 7, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office.
A spokesman for the office, Salama Marouf, told reporters yesterday that 10,328 people including 4,237 children, 2,719 women, and 631 elderly persons, have been killed.
Nearly 26,000 others have been injured, and over 3,000 people are missing, Anadolu Agency reported.
The death toll includes 1,021 residents of Gaza City and the northern Gaza Strip who were displaced to areas which the occupation claimed were safe in the south of the Gaza Strip and 49 journalists.
He added that 192 medical and health personnel were killed, 40 ambulances were destroyed, 113 health institutions were severely damaged, and 18 hospitals and 40 health centres were put out of service.
Marouf pointed out that "the occupation committed 1,071 massacres against Palestinian families…while 1.5 million citizens were displaced from their homes."
Israel has been conducting air and ground attacks on the Gaza Strip since October 7.
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