THE government of Hamas announced today that 11,320 Palestinians have been killed to the Israeli bombing of the Gaza Stripsince the start of the war on October 7.

Among the deaths recorded so far are 4,650 children and 3,145 women, the Hamas government said. In addition, 29,200 people have been injured.

Hamas’s health minister said, for his part, that dozens of bodies are scattered on the streets of the northern Gaza Strip and are impossible to collect, as the Israeli army targets ambulances and rescuers trying to reach them.

In the attack launched by Hamas militants on October 7, around 1,200 people were killed in southern Israel and more than 240 were kidnapped and taken to the Gaza Strip. Only four hostages have been released to date.