Israel on Friday reduced the death toll from last month’s Hamas attack in southern Israel from 1,400 to around 1,200, a foreign ministry spokesman said.
“This is a new number,” the minister’s spokesman, Lior Haiat, told AFP.
“This is due to the fact that there were many corpses that were not identified and now we think they belong to terrorists… and not to victims among Israelis,” Hayat said, RSE reports.
Israel previously announced that members of the militant Hamas movement, designated a terrorist organization by the US and the European Union, killed 1,400 people, mostly civilians, on October 7.
Let’s recall that after the October 7 attack, Israel vowed to destroy Hamas and launched brutal attacks on the Gaza Strip.
More than 11,000 people have since been killed in Israeli strikes in Gaza, according to the health ministry in the Hamas-controlled Palestinian territory.
