A total of 33,899 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip since last October, the Health Ministry in the besieged enclave said on Wednesday.
Health Ministry says 76,664 others injured in Israeli offensive since last October
The Gaza-based Health Ministry made the statement as the Israeli deadly onslaught on Gaza entered its 194th day.
The ongoing onslaughts have also injured 76,664 Palestinians, it added.
It noted that in the past 24 hours, Israel committed six massacres against families across the Gaza Strip that left 56 fatalities, and 89 wounded who arrived in the hospitals.
“Many people are still trapped under rubble and on the roads and rescuers are unable to reach them,” it added.
Israel has pounded the Gaza Strip since a cross-border attack by Hamas, which Tel Aviv says killed nearly 1,200 people.
The Israeli war on Gaza has pushed 85% of the territory’s population into internal displacement amid acute shortages of food, clean water, and medicine, while over 60% of the enclave’s infrastructure has been damaged or destroyed, according to the UN.
Israel stands accused of genocide at the International Court of Justice. An interim ruling in January ordered Tel Aviv to stop genocidal acts and take measures to guarantee that humanitarian assistance is provided to civilians in Gaza.
It was earlier reported that, Israeli army carries out over 40 raids across Gaza in past 24 hours. The army claimed that raids were against Hamas military infrastructure
The Israeli army on Wednesday said it carried out over 40 raids across the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours.
In a statement, the Israeli army claimed that the raids targeted Hamas military infrastructure, including rocket launchers, booby-trapped buildings, observation posts, underground sites, and other infrastructure.
The Hamas group is yet to comment on the Israeli army’s statement.
On Tuesday night, an Anadolu correspondent reported that seven Palestinians, including four children, were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a home for the Abu Hannoud family in Rafah city, southern Gaza Strip.
The Gaza-based Interior Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday that seven police personnel and other passers-by were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a police car in Gaza City.
In a third incident reported late Tuesday, an Israeli airstrike on the Al-Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, left 11 civilians killed, mostly children.
Israel has waged a deadly military offensive on the Gaza Strip since an Oct. 7 cross-border attack led by Hamas in which some 1,200 Israelis were killed.
More than 33,800 Palestinians, mostly women and children, have since been killed in Gaza, and over 76,500 injured amid mass destruction and shortages of necessities.
The Israeli war has pushed 85% of Gaza’s population into internal displacement amid a crippling blockade of most food, clean water, and medicine, while 60% of the enclave’s infrastructure has been damaged or destroyed, according to the UN.
Israel stands accused of genocide at the International Court of Justice, which in January issued an interim ruling ordering Tel Aviv to ensure its forces do not commit acts of genocide, and guarantee that humanitarian assistance is provided to civilians in Gaza.
