Gaza’s Health Ministry said Tuesday that Israeli forces killed 12 Palestinians and wounded 43 others in the previous 24-hour period.
The latest violence brings the Health Ministry’s death toll since October 7 to 41,467 and the number of wounded to 95,921. The figures are considered an undercount since they don’t account for the thousands who are missing under the rubble, and the number of indirect deaths caused by the Israeli siege is not known.
“There are still a number of victims under the rubble and on the streets, and ambulance and civil defense crews cannot reach them,” the ministry wrote on Telegram. The post included a link for Palestinians to report missing family members.
Later in the day, Reuters reported that Gaza medics said a total of 22 people were killed by Israeli strikes on Tuesday. The toll is higher since the Health Ministry puts out its numbers about mid-day Gaza time, and it only counts bodies that have been brought to hospitals or morgues.
Strikes on Tuesday included an Israeli attack on a house in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza. The Palestinian news agency WAFA reported that at least six Palestinians, including two children, were killed in the strike, and others were injured. WAFA also reported that a total of seven Palestinians were killed by Israeli operations in the southern city of Khan Younis.
Last week, Gaza’s Health Ministry released the names of 34,344 Palestinians who have been killed by Israeli forces, including 11,355 children. Among the children were 710 infants who did not make it to their first birthday.
The Biden administration continues to support the genocidal slaughter in Gaza by providing weapons to the Israeli military. A senior Israeli Air Force official recently acknowledged that without the US military aid, Israel would not be able to sustain operations in Gaza for more than a few months.
