Gaza's Death Toll Reaches 1077

Eight Palestinians were killed and 80 others injured on Monday by a series of Israeli attacks on different parts of the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian Health Ministry official said.



"The new fatalities bring death toll in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of Israel's ongoing operation against it on July 7 to 1077," Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qodra told Anadolu Agency.



He added that 6430 more Palestinians were injured by Israeli strikes and artillery shelling since the beginning of the war.



Al-Qodra said eight Palestinians were killed and 20 others injured by two separate Israeli strikes in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis.



He said 60 more Palestinians were injured by other strikes in different parts of the Gaza Strip.



At least ten Palestinian children were killed and 45 others injured on Monday by Israeli shelling of the western Gaza City Al-Shati Camp, a Palestinian Health Ministry official said.



The official, who asked not to be named, added that the bodies of at least ten children arrived at Al-Shefaa Hospital, having been killed by an Israeli strike on a camp public park.



He added that 45 injured victims had also arrived at the hospital, describing the conditions of some of the victims as "serious".



Since July 7, Israel has pounded the Gaza Strip with fierce aerial bombardments with the ostensible aim of halting rocket fire from the strip.



Gaza-based resistance factions, meanwhile, have continued to fire rocket at Israeli cities in response to relentless Israeli bombardments.



According to official Israeli figures, 48 Israeli soldiers and three civilians have been killed since the hostilities began.



Israel's military operation, dubbed operation "Protective Edge," is the self-proclaimed Jewish state's third major offensive against the densely-populate Gaza Strip – which is home to some 1.8 million Palestinians – within the last six years.



In 2008/9, over 1500 Palestinians were killed in Israel's three-week-long operation "Cast Lead."



By Mustafa Haboosh



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