A person passes the scene the place a rocket fired from Gaza strip hit a constructing on Oct. 7, 2023 in Tel Aviv, Israel. Israeli officers revised down the estimated variety of individuals killed within the Oct. 7 assaults to 1,200 from 1,400 on Friday.

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A person passes the scene the place a rocket fired from Gaza strip hit a constructing on Oct. 7, 2023 in Tel Aviv, Israel. Israeli officers revised down the estimated variety of individuals killed within the Oct. 7 assaults to 1,200 from 1,400 on Friday.

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TEL AVIV, Israel — In a textual content message to journalists on Friday, a spokesperson from Israel’s Foreign Ministry stated “around 1,200” is now what he known as “the official number of people” killed by Hamas militants on Oct. 7. That’s about 200 fewer victims than Israel had been citing for greater than a month.

“This is not a final number. It is an updated estimate,” Lior Haiat, spokesperson for the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, wrote. He added that the toll would possibly nonetheless change once more.

Israeli media quote unnamed officers as saying some stays had been initially misidentified. Many of the our bodies had been burned and mutilated that day, and the method of figuring out them remains to be underway.

The variety of hostages being held in Gaza stays round 240.

The Oct. 7 assaults, and the massive variety of casualties, prompted Israel to launch air and floor strikes on Gaza, the place Palestinian well being officers say greater than 11,000 individuals have been killed.