DUBAI, December 1. /TASS/. About 60% of homes in the Gaza Strip have been destroyed by Israeli strikes, Al Jazeera reports, citing Gaza’s government media office.

According to the office, at least 50,000 families are now homeless.

Some 250,000 housing units have been partially destroyed, largely in the northern Gaza Strip, including Gaza City.

Tensions in the Middle East flared up again on October 7 after militants from the radical Palestinian group Hamas launched a surprise incursion into Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip. Hamas described its attack as a response to the actions of Israeli authorities against the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. Israel announced a total blockade of Gaza and started to carry out strikes on targets in the enclave, as well as on certain areas in Lebanon and Syria. Clashes are also taking place in the West Bank.