The total number of Palestinians killed in Gaza since Israel's offensive began on October 7 rose to more than 25,000 today after new attacks by the Israeli army, the health ministry of the Gaza Strip, which is controlled by the Islamist group Hamas, reported.
The source announced the count after specifying that “in the last 24 hours, the Israeli occupation carried out 15 massacres against families in Gaza, causing 178 deaths and 293 injuries.”
Against this backdrop, “the number of dead has risen to 25,105 and the number of wounded to 62,681” since the start of the war, Health added, while fighting with Palestinian militias and Israeli army operations on land, sea and air on January 107 day to be continued. of the conflict.
According to the official Palestinian news agency Wafa, attacks have occurred in several parts of the Gaza Strip in recent hours.
“Three people died in the airstrike on a vehicle in which they were traveling in the Yarmouk district of Gaza City,” Wafa said, citing local sources.
In response, there were airstrikes on a house in the AL Zeitoun district, also in Gaza City, “killing several citizens and injuring others.”
On the other hand, there were more operations in the city itself. Last night, Israeli snipers killed and injured several people in the Al Katiba area in the southwest, and warplanes attacked the Al Shati refugee camp in the northern part of Gaza City on the seafront.
In the southern Khan Younis area, where fighting has continued daily since Israel's ground offensive expanded southward in early December, Wafa reported artillery attacks on the Al Manara district and shelling against its western area, and in the Al Amal district leaving one dead and several injured.
In addition, “the coastal areas of the city of Deir Balah” in the center of the Gaza Strip and Khan Yunis itself were also bombed.
The Israeli army also “attacked the Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis with artillery for several hours,” explained Wafa.
According to the Palestinian Red Crescent medical service, Israeli forces attacked yesterday the surroundings of the Al Amal health center, also in the Khan Younis district, and the Crescent teams assured that they recorded four deaths from an attack “against a civilian vehicle” in Rafah, in the southernmost part of the enclave, where more than a million of Gaza's 1.9 internally displaced people live.
On the other hand, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, according to the United Nations and the Red Crescent, around 800,000 people are still suffering from a serious humanitarian crisis due to difficulties in accessing food, water, humanitarian assistance or basic supplies such as medicine.