UPDATE – Israeli army says 2 more soldiers killed in Gaza battles

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By Anadolu staff

GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army said Tuesday that two soldiers had been killed in battles in the southern Gaza Strip.

A military statement said that two other soldiers were seriously injured.

According to military figures, at least 190 soldiers have been killed since Israel expanded its ground offensive in the Gaza Strip on Oct. 27.

The army said that the military death toll reached 524 since the outbreak of the Gaza conflict on Oct. 7.

Israel has pounded the Gaza Strip since a cross-border attack by the Palestinian group Hamas on Oct. 7, killing at least 24,285 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injuring 61,154 others, according to local health authorities.

Israel says around 1,200 people 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 60% of the enclave’s infrastructure was damaged or destroyed, according to the UN.

*Writing by Ahmed Asmar