CAIRO, November 7. /TASS/. Israel has struck seven hospitals in the Gaza Strip in recent hours, killing 13 people and leaving 140 wounded, the Palestinian health ministry said on Tuesday.

According to the ministry, as many as 192 medical workers have been killed in Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip. Some 2,450 people, including 1,350 minors, are reported missing.

Tensions flared up again in the Middle East on October 7 after militants from the Gaza Strip-based radical Palestinian group Hamas launched a surprise incursion on Israeli territory, killing many Israeli kibbutz residents living near the Gaza border and abducting more than 200 Israelis, including women, children and the elderly. Hamas described its attack as a response to Israeli authorities’ aggressive actions against the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City. Israel declared a total blockade of the Gaza Strip and launched bombardments of the enclave and some areas in Lebanon and Syria, as well as a ground operation against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Clashes are also reported in the West Bank.