Israeli Forces Kill 62 Palestinians in Gaza Over 48 Hours

Gaza’s Health Ministry said Tuesday that Israeli forces killed at least 62 Palestinians and injured 147 in the previous 48-hour period as relentless Israeli attacks continued across the Strip.

According to The New Arab, strikes on Tuesday included an attack on the al-Mawasi camp, which the Israeli military has declared a so-called “safe zone” but has regularly bombed. Eleven people were reported killed in the strike on al-Mawasi.

Israeli strikes also hit the western part of Deir el-Balah, central Gaza, where six people, including two newborn babies, were killed. “We saw their mothers crying and carrying them out of the Al-Aqsa Hospital. It was a very heartbreaking moment, like every single day,” said Al Jazeera reporter Hind Khoudary.

Multiple Israeli airstrikes were reported in Gaza City in the north, including an attack on a tent camp sheltering people and a strike on a house that killed at least eight Palestinians.

Israel also continued its ethnic cleansing campaign in northern Gaza, ordering 130 families to leave Beit Hanoun. Local sources told The New Arab that the Israeli military rounded up Palestinian civilians to expel them under gunfire.

Gaza’s Health Ministry said the latest violence brought its death toll since October 2023 to 43,665 killed and the number of wounded 103,076. The ministry’s numbers are considered an undercount since they don’t account for Palestinians who are missing and presumed dead under the rubble or indirect deaths caused by the Israeli siege.

A group of American healthcare workers who volunteered in Gaza estimated in an open letter to President Biden in October that the US-backed Israeli bombing campaign and siege have killed at least 118,908 Palestinians, including over 60,000 who have starved to death. Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, who led the letter, told Antiwar.com in a recent interview that the estimate was the bare minimum they came up with by looking at the available data.