A person passes the scene the place a rocket fired from Gaza strip hit a constructing on Oct. 7, 2023 in Tel Aviv, Israel. Israeli officers revised down the estimated variety of folks killed within the Oct. 7 assaults to 1,200 from 1,400 on Friday.
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A person passes the scene the place a rocket fired from Gaza strip hit a constructing on Oct. 7, 2023 in Tel Aviv, Israel. Israeli officers revised down the estimated variety of folks killed within the Oct. 7 assaults to 1,200 from 1,400 on Friday.
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TEL AVIV, Israel — In a textual content message to journalists on Friday, a spokesperson from Israel’s Overseas Ministry mentioned ”round 1,200” is now what he known as ”the official variety of folks” killed by Hamas militants on Oct. 7. That is about 200 fewer victims than Israel had been citing for greater than a month.
”This isn’t a ultimate quantity. It’s an up to date estimate,” Lior Haiat, spokesperson for the Israel Ministry of Overseas Affairs, wrote. He added that the toll may nonetheless change once more.
Israeli media quote unnamed officers as saying some stays had been initially misidentified. Lots of the our bodies had been burned and mutilated that day, and the method of figuring out them continues to be underway.
The variety of hostages being held in Gaza stays round 240.
The Oct. 7 assaults, and the massive variety of casualties, prompted Israel to launch air and floor strikes on Gaza, the place Palestinian well being officers say greater than 11,000 folks have been killed.