Israeli Forces Kill 16 More Palestinians in the Gaza Strip

Gaza's Health Ministry says the death toll has reached 40,988

Gaza’s Health Ministry said Monday that Israel’s assault on the besieged territory killed another 16 Palestinians in the previous 24-hour period.

The latest killings bring the recorded death toll in Gaza since October 7 to 40,988. Another 94,825 people have been wounded.

Israeli strikes were reported across Gaza, including several attacks on the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza that occurred overnight Sunday into Monday. One strike on a house in Nuseirat killed three people and wounded seven more.

Video shows Palestinian children at a hospital in central Gaza after they were wounded by an Israeli strike on the Nuseirat refugee camp (Anadolu Agency via Reuters Connect)

Another attack on the al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza killed at least four Palestinians. Al Jazeera reported a strike in the southern city of Khan Younis killed at least one person.

On September 5, Gaza’s Media Office released figures on the number of women and children who have been killed. It said the Israeli campaign had killed 16,715 children and 11,308 women since October 7.

Despite the massive child death toll, the Biden administration continues to support the genocidal slaughter in Gaza with arms shipments. An Israeli Air Force official recently acknowledged that without US military aid, Israel wouldn’t have been able to sustain operations in Gaza for more than a few months.

The numbers from Gaza’s Health Ministry and Media Office are considered a low estimate since they don’t include Palestinians who are missing and presumed dead under the rubble, which has previously been estimated to be about 10,000 people.

It’s also unclear how many people have died in Gaza due to indirect causes. A letter written by a group of experts recently published in the British medical journal The Lancet estimated the total number of deaths in Gaza, including those killed by the Israeli military and indirect causes, could reach 186,000. They reached the numbers by using the death toll from the end of June, which was 37,396.

Author: Dave DeCamp

Dave DeCamp is the news editor of Antiwar.com, follow him on Twitter @decampdave.