Gaza’s Health Ministry said Monday that Israeli forces killed at least 20 Palestinians and wounded 108 in the previous 24-hour period.
The latest violence brings the ministry’s death toll to 41,615 and the number of wounded to 96,359.
The ministry’s numbers are an undercount since they only include the dead and wounded who arrive at hospitals and morgues and don’t account for the estimated 10,000 Palestinians who are missing and presumed dead under the rubble.
“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 Monday included a strike in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza that hit the home of Wafa Aludaini, a well-known English-speaking reporter who worked with The Palestine Chronicle. The strike killed Aludaini, her husband, and their two children.
Gaza’s Media Office said Aludaini was the 174th journalist to be killed by Israeli forces in Gaza. “We condemn in the strongest terms the Israeli occupation’s targeted assassination of Palestinian journalists,” the office said, according to Middle East Eye.
Palestinian health officials told Reuters that an Israeli strike hit a house in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, killing at least six people. Strikes were also reported in the southern city of Rafah.
