In 2009, months after Israel’s first war with Hamas-led terrorists in Gaza, the ministry was revived after years in which various bodies in different agencies and ministries had been tasked with selling Israel’s positions.

Source: https://www.timesofisrael.com/cabinet-votes-to-shutter-denuded-public-diplomacy-ministry-send-budget-to-south/

Israel has said that the Hamas-led attack killed more than 1,400 people within its borders, mostly civilians.

Source: https://metro.co.uk/2023/11/03/family-of-brit-doctor-leaving-gaza-hes-one-of-the-lucky-ones-19768709/

Meantime, Israeli operations there continue as the death toll among Palestinians, according to the Hamas-led health ministry, topped 20,000 people since the terror attacks of Oct. 7. Amna Nawaz reports.

Source: https://biztoc.com/x/495c8c4367623ff2?ref=ff

Salama Maarouf, the spokesman for the Hamas-led Gaza administration, said that one of his employees, Haytham Harara, was among the dead.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/03/world/middleeast/al-shifa-hospital-gaza-explosion.html

With most of the bodies of those killed in the Hamas-led attack now having been definitively identified, another major reduction in the death toll is unlikely.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/12/world/middleeast/israel-death-toll-hamas-attack.html