Baghdad - The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced that the victims of the Israeli aggression had risen to 5,087 martyrs.

The ministry stated in a statement, "The number of victims of the Israeli aggression rose to 5,087 martyrs, including 2,055 children and 1,119 women, in addition to 15,273 injured."

Earlier, statistics from the Palestinian Ministry of Health announced that the number of martyrs of the Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip had risen to 4,741, and the number of casualties reached more than 14,245, at the end of the sixteenth day of the ongoing Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip, while the dawn of the seventeenth day witnessed the continuation of Israeli air and land bombing.

While the bombing in the Gaza Strip affected a number of homes, Palestinian media reported that Israeli warplanes bombed areas near 3 hospitals in the early hours of Monday morning./ End

Source: National Iraqi News Agency