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Hamas attacked Israel nine weeks ago, killing 1,200 people and taking 240 hostages, some of whom were freed during a brief truce. Gaza's Hamas-run Health Ministry has said Israel has killed about 18,000 people in its retaliation campaign. Hamas threatens hostages The Gaza Strip was the scene of intense fighting and shelling this Monday after Hamas warned that none of the hostages captured in Israel would leave "alive" if its demands for the release of Palestinian prisoners are not met. "Neither the fascist enemy and its arrogant leadership... nor the partisans behind them... can take their prisoners alive without exchanging, negotiating and accepting the terms of resistance," Hamas spokesman Abu Obeida said in a video.
Audio published on Sunday on the military wing's Mexico Mobile Number List Telegram channel. Pressure on authorities has been increasing as 138 people are still being held by Hamas and other armed groups. A Palestinian girl cries after the death of several people in an Israeli bombing at the Nasser hospital. Photo: Bloomberg Israel has repeatedly vowed to do everything possible to rescue the remaining hostages. Some 110 hostages have been freed in total, but a week-long truce under which dozens were freed ended last week and Israel has since resumed its bombing of Gaza. Powerful airstrikes hit the center and east of Khan Yunis, the large city in the south of the Strip where thousands of civilians took refuge after fleeing the fighting that devastated the north.
The Ministry of Health of the Palestinian territory, ruled by Hamas since 2007, reported that at least 32 bodies were transferred to the Naser hospital in this city in the last 24 hours. The ministry also noted that there were dozens" of deaths throughout the territory, including in Gaza City and the Jabaliyia refugee camp, in the north of the enclave, as well as in the Nuseirat and Maghazi camps, in the center. . Islamic Jihad, the second armed Islamist movement in Gaza, claimed that one of its fighters blew up a house where Israeli soldiers were searching for entrance to an underground tunnel. The Israeli army, for its part, reported rocket fire from Gaza towards Israel.