The Hamas attack on Israel resulted in the deaths of at least 1,160 people, mainly civilians, according to an AFP count based on official data. Nearly six months later, the Jewish state continues its ground offensive in the Gaza Strip. At least 32,916 people, most of them civilians, were killed in Israeli operations, punctuated by incessant bombardments, the Hamas health ministry said.
“It is undeniable that there was a massacre. These figures, provided by the Hamas health administration, should perhaps be taken with a grain of salt because there are no journalists on site but there are “There are tens of thousands of deaths in Gaza caused by Israeli bombings. This is a fact that cannot be denied,” begins Gilles Kepel, university professor, guest of La Grande interview Europe 1-CNews on Wednesday.
“Many forget what happened on October 7”
“A lot of people focus on this fact and forget what happened on October 7,” he added. According to Israel, around 250 people were kidnapped by Hamas and 130 of them are still hostages, including 34 who died in Gaza.
After 18 days of operations, Israeli troops withdrew from the al-Chifa hospital complex in Gaza on Monday, leaving behind immense destruction and dead bodies. The army said it had “killed more than 200 terrorists and arrested more than 900 people” and accused Hamas, considered a terrorist group by the United States and the European Union, of having used the hospital as a “command center”.
“The Israeli response has failed”
A war far from over, according to the author of the work Holocausts published by Plon. “The Israeli response has failed militarily. It’s been six months and there is no real success. There are more and more negative effects, the Palestinians killed en masse, civilians but also the humanitarians who come to be killed… We are in a situation where Mr. Netanyahu has caught himself in a trap and it seems to me that the pressure of both the demonstrations in Israel and the American pressure are doing everything to ensure that he decides to withdraw. However, he is not going to do so because if he withdraws, he risks going to prison”, he assured at the microphone of Europe 1.