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Israeli Death Toll Passes 600, More Than 2,000 Injured

The death toll from the large-scale operation launched by Hamas resistant movement on Israeli occupied territories is over 600, according to Israeli officials.

Israeli Health Ministry also confirmed that the number of wounded in hospitals has reached 2,048, including 20 in critical condition and 330 seriously wounded.

The Israeli Army also confirmed at least 44 soldiers have been killed in the fighting in Israel so far. The army announced the names of the soldiers on X in two separate posts.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is trying to establish the exact number of “hostages” that have been taken into Gaza, with the military’s international spokesperson emphasizing the “complicated” nature of the situation to CNN on Sunday.

IDF spokesman Lt. Col. Richard Hecht stated the IDF understands that “dozens” of “hostages” have been taken into Gaza.

The Spokesman for the Israeli Military Daniel Hagari also said the regime’s army will evacuate all Jewish settlers living close to the Gaza Strip within 24 hours, following a large-scale operation by Gaza-based Palestinian resistance in the occupied territories.

“Our mission for the upcoming 24 hours is to evacuate all residents living around Gaza,” Hagari told reporters on Sunday.

Meanwhile, Israeli media reported that more Palestinian fighters have entered the Southern Israeli town of Magen.

“Major gun battles are taking place in the area with the Israeli army using tanks against the fighters,” according to multiple Israeli media outlets.

The Gaza-based Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas resistance movement, has also announced it renewed rocket fire towards the 1948 Israeli-occupied territories on Sunday morning.

Hamas also rejected accusations of targeting civilians as the fighting rages across the occupied territories since the resistance groups launched Operation Al-Aqsa Storm on Saturday.

Osama Hamadan, senior spokesperson of Hamas, has told Al-Jazeera that they are not attacking civilians.

“You have to differentiate between settlers and civilians; settlers attacked Palestinians,” Hamdan added.

Meantime, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is scheduled to hold an emergency meeting on Sunday to discuss the recent escalating tensions between the Israeli-occupying regime and Palestinian resistance forces in the Gaza Strip.

The UNSC announced in a press release that it will gather at 3:00 pm local time (1900 GMT) to deliberate on “the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question”.

The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas announced on Saturday the beginning of a new military operation the “Al-Aqsa Flood” against Israel.

Hamas stressed its unprecedented offensive by land, air and sea was in response to the desecration of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound as well as Israeli atrocities against Palestinians over the decades.

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