GAZA STRIP (Dispatches) – The besieged Gaza Strip has incurred $244 million in losses due to the ongoing air strikes by the Zionist regime, the government in Gaza has said.
The media office said in a statement that the regime’s warplanes, artillery and warships have launched more than 1,615 raids and attacks since 10 May against homes, residential buildings, government headquarters and the besieged strip’s infrastructure, including roads, electricity, water and sewage networks causing nearly $244 million in direct and indirect losses.
According to the statement, the Zionist regime has so far bombed more than 8,247 homes causing partial to severe damage to them as well as 57 schools, health facilities and primary care clinics that sustained partial to severe damage.
“The aggression has incurred $27 million in direct losses sustained by the economic and commercial establishments, including the bombing of the industrial zone and a number of factories,” the statement said, adding that the bombing of streets and infrastructure including water and sewage networks is estimated to have caused $22 million in losses, in addition to $12 million in losses sustained by the energy sector due to the bombing of power networks, transformers and power lines.
The Zionist regime’s aggression has resulted in the killing of over 210 Palestinians, including 61 children and 36 women, and wounding 1,442 others so far.
Meanwhile, Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth has report that the Zionist regime is making approximately $37 million in direct economic losses each day it is bombing Gaza.
Anadolu Agency reported the Israeli newspaper saying that over the first eight days of its bombing campaign of Gaza, the regime has suffered losses equal to those it made during its 50-day war on the besieged Gaza Strip in 2014.
The newspaper reported that more than 4,000 Zionists had applied for compensation for damages to their homes, furniture, vehicles and properties. Factories, warehouses, companies, shops and agricultural projects in the area around Gaza have incurred heavy losses due to the Palestinians rockets, it added.