CAIRO, January 9. /TASS/. The death toll in the Gaza Strip as a result of Israeli military strikes on the enclave has amounted to 23,210, the Gaza Health Ministry reported on Tuesday.

"The death toll from the Israeli aggression since October 7 last year has reached 23,210 while 59,167 more people were wounded," the ministry said in a statement published on its Telegram channel.

The ministry also said that 126 people were killed and 241 wounded over the past day alone.

Tensions flared up again in the Middle East on October 7, 2023 after militants of the Gaza Strip-based radical Palestinian movement Hamas launched a surprise incursion into 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 the Israeli authorities’ aggressive actions against the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City.

Israel has declared a complete siege of the Gaza Strip and started a military operation there. Israel is also striking parts of Lebanon and Syria in retaliation for attacks originating from those countries. Clashes are also taking place in the West Bank.