Gaza’s Health Ministry said Thursday that Israeli attacks killed 70 Palestinians and wounded 104 over the previous 24-hour period as the daily US-backed slaughter continues.
The Health Ministry said its recorded death toll since October 2023 has surpassed 46,000, reaching 46,006, and the number of wounded has climbed to 109,378. The ministry’s numbers only account for dead and wounded Palestinians brought to hospitals.
“A number of victims remain under rubble and on the roads that ambulance and civil defense teams cannot reach them,” the ministry wrote on Telegram.
A few months ago, a group of American healthcare workers estimated in an open letter to President Biden that the US-backed Israeli onslaught has killed at least 118,908 Palestinians, a total that includes those missing and presumed dead under the rubble and indirect deaths caused by the Israeli siege.
Conditions for Palestinians living under the siege have only gotten worse since the letter was published on October 2, 2024. The IDF has imposed a total siege on northern Gaza as part of an ethnic cleansing campaign, and babies living in tents have begun dying of hypothermia due to the cold weather.
Israeli attacks on Thursday included the bombing of the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, which killed a father and his three children, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA.
Al Jazeera reported at least eight Palestinians were killed by Israeli attacks on Jabalia in the north, and several others were killed by strikes on Gaza City. The Israeli military also launched heavy strikes across Gaza City, but the number of casualties is unclear.
