Israel has revised downwards the death toll from the Hamas attack carried out on October 7, from 1,400 to 1,200 victims. A decrease noted by the identification of bodies as those of men from the Islamist movement. “This is an updated estimate,” according to the spokesperson for the Israeli Foreign Ministry.
Israel has revised the death toll from the Hamas attack on its territory on October 7 from 1,400 to 1,200 after identifying bodies as those of men from the Islamist movement, the spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Friday. the AFP. “This is an updated estimate,” Lior Haiat said, without providing an explanation for the new figure.
The work of identifying bodies is complex and takes time
This new death toll of 1,200, mostly civilians killed on the day of the attack by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas on October 7, was used in a press release from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Friday. “Hamas terrorists (…) murdered in cold blood around 1,200 people and kidnapped 240, including babies, children, women and the elderly,” the statement said. Questioned by AFP, Lior Haiat confirmed this figure.
Since October 7 and the attack of a scale and violence never seen since the creation of Israel in 1948, the Israeli authorities have been carrying out a complex work of identifying the bodies found in different places in the south of Israel. The previous toll of 1,400 was gradually established in the week following the attacks and had remained stable since then.
For more than a month, Israel has declared a war to “eradicate” Hamas, in power in the Gaza Strip. The incessant Israeli bombings on this territory have left more than 11,000 dead, mainly civilians, including more than 4,500 children, according to Hamas figures.