Gaza’s Health Ministry said Tuesday that Israeli forces killed at least 42 Palestinians and wounded 183 over the previous 24-hour period as Israeli attacks continue to pound the Strip.
The Health Ministry’s figures are based on the number of dead and wounded Palestinians brought to hospitals. “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.
Israeli attacks on Tuesday included a drone strike that wiped out a journalist and his entire family, marking the third Palestinian journalist killed in Gaza since Israel restarted its genocidal war on March 18.
According to Arab News, Mohammed Saleh al-Bardawil, a broadcaster for Al-Aqsa Radio, was killed along with his wife and three children by a strike on their apartment in the southern city of Khan Younis.
Gaza’s Government Media Office said the killing of al-Bardawil brought the total number of journalists killed by Israel in Gaza since October 2023 to 209. Last week, Israel killed two journalists on the same day, including 23-year-old Hossam Shabat, who reported for Al Jazeera and the US news site Drop Site News.
After last week’s killing of journalists, the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate described Israel’s actions in Gaza as the “deadliest massacre against journalists in modern history—amidst an alarming international silence and disgraceful complicity with the crimes of the occupation.”
Gaza’s Health Ministry also said on Tuesday that since March 18, Israeli forces have killed 1,042 Palestinians and wounded 2,542. The ministry’s death toll since October 2023 has reached 50,399. Accounting for the Palestinians missing and presumed dead under the rubble puts the death toll at about 62,000. Estimates that factor in indirect deaths caused by the US-backed Israeli siege put the death toll in the hundreds of thousands.
