The Israeli army announced on Saturday that five of its soldiers had been killed since Friday during fighting in the Gaza Strip, according to AFP.

Four soldiers were killed in the southern Gaza Strip on Friday and a fifth on Saturday in the northern Palestinian Territory, the army said in a statement. Thanks to these deaths, the number of Israeli soldiers killed since the beginning of the ground offensive of the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip on October 27 has reached 144 people.

Over 200 Palestinians have been killed in the last 24 hours

More than 200 Palestinians have been killed in the past 24 hours by Israel’s continued shelling and ground operations in the Gaza Strip, Hamas said, after a UN resolution on humanitarian aid failed to call for a ceasefire.

Almost three months after the start of the war between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, the latter announced the discovery of the bodies of dozens of Palestinians killed, some of whom it said were “executed”, during an Israeli ground operation in Jabalia. in the north of the Gaza Strip.

This latest war between the Palestinian group and the Israeli military was sparked by an attack of unprecedented scale and violence by Hamas commandos who infiltrated southern Israel from neighboring Gaza.

According to AFP, based on the latest official Israeli figures, the attack killed around 1,140 people, most of them civilians. Palestinian militants also kidnapped about 250 people, of whom 129, according to Israel, are still being held in Gaza.

In response, Israel’s land, sea and air bombardment of Gaza, which dropped thousands of bombs, killed 20,258 people, mostly women, teenagers and children, and injured more than 53,000, according to the Hamas Health Ministry.