Israeli attacks on northern and central Gaza killed at least 29 Palestinians on Wednesday, Al Jazeera reported, citing medical sources in the Strip.
Gaza’s Health Ministry said in its daily update, which it puts out about mid-day Gaza time, that at least 19 were killed and 69 were wounded over the previous 24-hour period. The ministry only counts dead and wounded Palestinians who are brought to hospitals.
Israeli attacks on Wednesday included a strike on a residential building near the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza, which has been under total siege as part of an ethnic cleansing campaign since early October. The attack killed at least 20 people, including women and children.
Moath Kahlout, a journalist reporting from the site, told Al Jazeera, “Due to a shortage of rescue teams, the neighbors are trying to pull the dead bodies from under the rubble.”
According to the Palestinian news agency WAFA, an Israeli attack on Gaza City killed a female journalist, Iman Al-Shanti, and her son. The strike, which hit a residential building, killed a total of five Palestinians.
Israeli strikes also pounded central Gaza, killing at least seven Palestinians in the Nuseirat refugee camp.
The Health Ministry said that, based on its numbers, the latest violence has brought the death toll since October 2023 to 44,805 and the number of wounded to 106,257.
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.
