The Health Ministry updates that as of Wednesday at 9 a.m., 3,007 injured individuals have been taken to hospitals throughout Israel since the beginning of the war.
At this time, 471 remain in hospitalized: 109 in serious condition, 199 in moderate condition, and 183 in good condition.
Overnight Tuesday, the Israeli Air Force hit more than 200 targets in Gaza’s Al Furqan neighborhood, which it called “a terror nest for Hamas,” from which “many activities against Israel are carried out.”
It was Israel’s third strike in the area in the past 24 hours, according to the military.
The IDF “will continue to act powerfully against the infrastructures of the terrorist organization Hamas, which aim terror against Israel, and continues extensive waves of attacks in the Gaza Strip,” it added.
Among the Hamas targets hit across the Strip were weapons storage facilities, command and control centers, naval assets and more, the military said.
“We have released all restraints, regained control of the [border] area and are moving to full offense,” Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant told troops during a visit to the south on Tuesday night.
On Wednesday, IDF spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said that over the past 24 hours, Israeli forces had killed 18 Palestinian terrorists who had infiltrated Israeli territory during Hamas’s Oct. 7 assault.
“These are the same terrorists who did not flee back to Gaza. They are in hiding places near the border. That’s why the scans are being conducted, and there are tens of thousands of troops in the area surrounding the Strip,” said Hagari.
The IDF said on Tuesday that some 1,500 Palestinian terrorists had been killed in Israel since Hamas launched its cross-border raid on Saturday morning.
Hagari added that Hamas has fired some 5,000 rockets at Israel since the war broke out, targeting the south and center of the country.
He defined the elimination of senior Hamas terrorists as the military’s “top priority.”
