DUBAI, November 14. /TASS/. Around 60% of residential building in the Gaza Strips have been either damaged or ruined as a result of Israeli attacks, the Al Jazeera television channel said on Tuesday, citing Gaza’s authorities.

Thus, according to the Gaza authorities, some 42,000 residential houses have been destroyed and 223,000 more have been damaged.

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.