The death toll in the Gaza Strip has risen to 1,200 people, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said on Thursday, following an increase in Israeli bombardments on the sixth day since Hamas's surprise attack.
"The number of martyrs has risen to around 1,200, and the number of wounded to around 5,600," a spokesperson for the health ministry in Gaza said.
The Palestinian territory, one of the most crowded places on Earth, has been under siege since Saturday in a near-constant bombardment. The blitz is retaliation for an attack on Israel by Gaza's ruling group Hamas which the Israeli military says killed more than 1,200 people.
Most of the 2.3 million people in the Gaza Strip have no electricity and no water. And, with hundreds of Israeli strikes raining down on their tiny enclave, they have nowhere to run.
More than 338,000 people have been forced to flee their homes in the Gaza Strip, the United Nations said.