38 Israeli soldiers injured in Gaza conflict in last 24 hours: Army

By Abdelraouf Arnaout

JERUSALEM (AA) - Thirty-eight more Israeli soldiers have been injured in the last 24 hours including eight during fighting in the Gaza Strip, the military said Thursday.

A statement by the military did not specify where the others were injured.

Army figures showed that 1,258 soldiers had been injured since Israel expanded its ground offensive in Gaza on Oct. 27.

The figures said at least 556 soldiers have been killed, including 219 in Gaza, since the ground offensive and 2,748 injured since the outbreak of the conflict in early October.

Israel has launched a deadly offensive on the Palestinian enclave following a surprise attack by the Palestinian resistance group, Hamas, killing at least 25,700 victims and injuring 63,740.

Nearly 1,200 Israelis are believed to have been killed in the Hamas attack.

The Israeli war has left 85% of Gaza’s population internally displaced amid acute shortages of food, clean water and medicine, while more than half of the enclave’s infrastructure has been damaged or destroyed, according to the UN.

*Writing by Ahmed Asmar