Israeli forces have dropped about 6,000 bombs on Gaza between October 7 and 12, the Israeli Air Force (IAF) said in a statement Thursday.
This is equivalent to the total number of airstrikes on Gaza during the entire 2014 Gaza-Israel conflict, which lasted from July 7 to August 26 of that year, according to data from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
2014 was the deadliest year on record in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, with at least 2,251 Palestinians killed in Gaza during 50 days of war, according to data from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
As of Thursday, 6 days into the current conflict, at least 1,537 people have been killed in Gaza, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said.
“The airstrikes killed hundreds of terrorists and attacked over 3,600 targets,” the IAF said in its statement, listing targets such as command and control targets, strategic military infrastructure, weapons production sites, intelligence assets, leadership targets, naval superiority targets and rocket system targets.
The Gaza neighborhoods of Beit Hanoun, Shejaiya, Rimal, El-Furkan and Tuffah suffered “extensive and heavy damage” it added.
CNN has geolocated more than 30 airstrikes, most of them in the northern part of the Gaza Strip and analyzed satellite imagery which confirms extensive damage to the Al-Shati and Jabalia refugee camps near Gaza City, CNN reports.
