Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip overnight and on Tuesday killed at least 34 Palestinians, medics told Reuters, as the daily US-backed slaughter continues.
One Israeli attack targeted a house in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza, which has been under a total siege since early October as part of an ethnic cleansing campaign. Gaza’s Civil Defense agency said the strikes killed at least 25, including women and children, mostly members of the same family.
In southern Gaza, six Palestinians were killed by various Israeli strikes around the city of Rafah. According to the Palestinian news agency WAFA, at least three were killed by a drone strike that targeted a group of civilians.
On Tuesday evening, Israeli strikes targeted the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza. The attacks killed at least seven Palestinians, including three children and a woman.
Gaza’s Health Ministry said in its daily update, which it puts out at about mid-day Gaza time, that at least 28 Palestinians were killed and 54 were wounded over the previous 24-hour period. The ministry only counts dead and wounded Palestinians who arrive at hospitals.
“A number of victims are still under the rubble and on the roads, and ambulance and civil defense crews cannot reach them,” the ministry wrote on Telegram. The post added that the latest violence brings the ministry’s death toll since October 2023 to 44,786 and the number of wounded to 106,188.
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.
