Gaza’s Health Ministry said Monday that Israeli attacks killed at least 50 Palestinians and wounded 84 over the previous 24-hour period as the US-backed daily slaughter continues.
Israeli strikes on Monday included an overnight attack on Palestinians in the southern city of Rafah who had lined up to buy flour. According to Al Jazeera, at least 10 Palestinians were killed in the strike.
In central Gaza, a significant number of women and children were slaughtered or wounded by Israeli attacks. Bodies were piling up at the Al-Aqsa Hospital in central Gaza after at least nine people from the same family, mostly women and children, were killed by an Israeli strike on the Bureij refugee camp.
At least two children were killed, and others were injured in a strike on the Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza, and they were also taken to the Al-Aqsa Hospital.
Israeli strikes also continued to pound northern Gaza, which has been under siege since early October as part of an ethnic cleansing campaign. According to the Palestinian news agency WAFA, several civilians were killed by an Israeli attack on a school-turned-shelter in Jabalia, and others were killed by strikes near the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia.
Dr. Hussam Abu Safia, the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, which has come under constant Israeli attacks, warned on Monday that over 100 patients’ lives were at risk after an Israeli bombing cut off electricity, water, and oxygen.
“The situation is extremely dangerous. We have patients in the intensive care unit and others awaiting surgeries. Access to the operating rooms is only possible after restoring electricity and oxygen supply,” Abu Safia said.
Gaza’s Health Ministry said the latest violence brought its death toll since October 2023 to 44,758 and the number of wounded to 106,134. The ministry only counts dead and injured Palestinians who are brought to hospitals and morgues.
“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.
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.
