Gaza’s Health Ministry said Thursday that Israeli attacks in Gaza killed 48 Palestinians and wounded 53 over the previous 24-hour period, based on the number of dead and wounded Palestinians who were brought to hospitals and morgues.
Attacks on Thursday included strikes on the Nuseirat Refugee Camp in central Gaza. Initial reports said at least nine Palestinians were killed by Israeli shelling on the camp. Later in the day, Al Jazeera reported a total of 16 people were killed and 55 were wounded in Nuseirat.
Israeli strikes also continued to pound northern Gaza, which has been under siege as part of an ethnic cleansing campaign since early October. A child was killed by an Israeli strike on Gaza City, and at least one Palestinian was killed in an attack on Jabalia. In Beit Lahia, four were reported killed in attacks on two houses.
The Palestinian news agency WAFA reported that several Palestinians were killed in southern Gaza in Israeli attacks on civilians in and around the cities of Khan Younis and Rafah.
The UN issued a new warning on the lack of aid on Thursday, saying that out of 55,000 pregnant women in Gaza, 15,000 are on the verge of famine. Earlier this week, Save the Children said that about 130,000 children under the age of 10 are trapped under the Israeli siege in northern Gaza.
Gaza’s Health Ministry said Thursday that the latest violence brought its death toll since October 2023 to 44,330 and the number of wounded to 104,933.
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.
