CAIRO, December 11. /TASS/. Eighty-six journalists have been killed during the ongoing Palestinian-Israeli escalation in the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian enclave’s government said.

The list of the killed journalists posted on the government press service’s Telegram channel has three women.

Last week, the Committee to Protect Journalists confirmed the death of 63 journalists in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the outburst of tensions in the Middle East.

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.