Source: Mondoweiss.net
The number of Palestinians killed in Israel’s deadly bombardment of Gaza Strip surpassed 6,000 people as Gaza’s Ministry of Health announced the death of 700 people in just 24 hours.
Casualties
Gaza: 6,546 killed; 17,439 wounded
Occupied West Bank: 104 killed; 1,734 wounded
Israel: 1,405 killed; 5,431 wounded
Key Developments
- Gaza’s Ministry of Health announces the death of 700 people in 24 hours, says Israel committed 47 massacres targeting family homes in Rafah, Beit Lahia, al-Faluja, Khan Younis, and Bureij and Shati refugee camps.
- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres: “Attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum,” Israel calls for his immediate resignation.
- UN reports an estimated 1.4m Palestinians already internally displaced from their homes.
- Saudi Foreign Minister: “[Israel] claimed the lives of thousands of civilians, including women, children and the elderly.”
- One-third of hospitals in Gaza and nearly two-thirds of primary health care clinics have shut down due to damage or lack of fuel, UN warns.
- Arafat Yasser Hamdan, 25, is the second Palestinian prisoner to die inside Israeli prison on Tuesday.
- Haaretz reports the comments of released Israeli captive Yocheved Lifshitz to the media about Hamas treating her “well” has damaged the Israeli narrative about the war.
- Hezbollah announced that four of its fighters were killed during military operations in the south of Lebanon.
- Hezbollah’s chief Hassan Nasrallah meets top Hamas and Islamic Jihad leaders
More than 6,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza Strip
The death toll of Palestinians killed in Israel’s deadly bombardment of Gaza Strip surpassed 6,000 people amid urgent calls for a ceasefire and the flow of fuel and humanitarian aid.
On Tuesday evening, Gaza’s Ministry of Health announced the death of 700 people in 24 hours, the majority of them killed in air strikes targeting family homes in Rafah, Beit Lahia, al-Faluga, Khan Yunis, and Buriej and Shati refugee camps.
The ministry said Israel committed 47 massacres against Palestinian families.
Israel has carpet bombed houses and buildings in Gaza Strip, flattening entire residential blocks, burying hundreds of Palestinians under the rubble and debris.
Rescue teams, which lack the proper and sufficient equipment to find missed people, are struggling to pull survivors from under the debris amid Israel’s continued bombardment and electricity outage at night.
One rescue member told Al-Arabiya that they could hear people’s screams from under the crushed concrete of the bombed buildings but couldn’t reach them.
Since Israel’s war on Gaza Strip, at least 6,546 Palestinians have been killed, including 2,360 children. Nearly 18,000 were injured, according to Gaza’s Ministry of Health….