Gaza’s Health Ministry said Monday that at least 37 Palestinians were killed and another 108 were wounded in the previous 24-hour period as Israeli attacks continued across the Strip.
The ministry counts the dead by the number of bodies that arrive at hospitals and morgues, but many bodies cannot be reached, especially in northern Gaza, which has been under siege since early October as part of an ethnic cleansing campaign.
“There are still a number of victims under the rubble and on the streets, and ambulance and civil defense crews cannot reach them,” the Health Ministry wrote on Telegram.
Israeli attacks on Monday included an attack on a house in the northern city of Jabalia. According to the Palestinian news agency, at least seven Palestinians were killed in the strike, and others were wounded.
Israeli strikes also pounded Beit Lahia in the north, hitting a house. The casualties are unclear as rescuers were unable to reach the site of the strikes to recover bodies. “Medical sources confirmed that they were unable to recover casualties from the site of the strike due to conditions. Civil defense crews confirmed that a huge fire broke out there,” said Al Jazeera reporter Tareq Abu Azzoum.
Israeli strikes also hit southern and central Gaza. WAFA reported at least two were killed by an attack on a gathering of displaced Palestinians in the southern city of Rafah. At least one Palestinian was reported in an Israeli strike on a village in central Gaza.
Gaza’s Health Ministry said the latest violence has brought its recorded death toll since October 2023 to 44,466 and the number of wounded to 105,358.
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 onslaught has killed at least 118,908 Palestinians, a total that includes indirect deaths caused by the Israeli siege. 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.
