Gaza Strip: more than 124 dead and 210 injured after latest Israeli attacks

Gaza Strip: more than 124 dead and 210 injured after latest Israeli attacks

The enclave’s Ministry of Health, controlled by Hamasreported that at least 124 people have died in the Gaza Strip and 210 have been injured in the last 24 hours “as a result of Israeli aggression.”

In total, in 150 days of war, 30,534 people have died in the Strip and 71,920 have been injured, according to the Ministry’s global count.

“Several victims remain under the rubble and on the roads, and the occupation prevents ambulances and civil protection teams from reaching them.”“, states the Ministry, which estimates the number of unrescued bodies trapped under the rubble at more than 7,000.

In Rafah, the southern end of the enclave where 1.4 million displaced people await the announced Israeli ground offensive, twelve people, including children, were killed in air strikes on two family homes, reports the official Palestinian agency Wafa.

The Ministry of Health reported yesterday two attacks against civilians waiting for humanitarian aid, one in the city of Loop, where “dozens of people died in another horrible massacre”; and another in Deir al Balah, in which at least five people died, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent.

Wafa also indicated that Israeli aircraft bombed four houses in Zaytun, a neighborhood southeast of Gaza City, killing and wounding several citizens.

He Israeli army reported yesterday that it had concluded its two-week military operation in Zaytun, where it killed hundreds of “terrorists” and destroyed thirty objectives, after having had to resume the offensive in the area after withdrawing in January due to the return of groups militiamen

Also in Gaza City, Israeli troops’ artillery fired on homes in the neighborhoods of Sabra and Rimal and Janobi, “causing casualties among civilians, including children and women,” indicates Wafa.

Two houses in Beit Lahia, north of the Stripealso suffered artillery attacks, “injuring several citizens who were taken to the Kamal Adwan hospital.

In that hospital, 15 babies have already died from malnutrition and dehydration in the last week, in addition to two others in the Shifa hospital in Gaza City, due to the lack of resources and fuel to operate the medical centers.

The Palestinian agency also reports aerial bombardments in the Nuseirat and Bureij refugee camps, and in the city of Deir al Balah, in the center of the Strip, killing two people and wounding dozens.

Source: Gestion

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