Gaza’s Health Ministry said Monday that Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip killed 49 Palestinians and wounded 75 over the previous 24-hour period as the daily US-backed slaughter continues.
The ministry’s figures only account for dead and wounded Palestinians who were brought to hospitals. “A number of victims are still under the rubble and on the roads, and ambulance and civil defense crews cannot reach them,” the ministry wrote on Telegram.
Among those killed by Israeli strikes was Thabat Saleem, a 30-year-old neonatal doctor who volunteered at the al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, according to Middle East Eye. She was killed by a strike on her home in central Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp.
“The management and staff at the al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital mourn the death of our colleague proudly and with honor, Dr. Thabat Saleem, who was martyred as a result of [Israel’s] aggression, God bless her and accept her as a martyr,” the hospital said in a statement.
Other Israeli strikes on Monday included a bombing of a town east of the southern city of Rafah that killed at least two children, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA.
Al Jazeera reported a total of seven Palestinians were killed by Israeli attacks on Rafah. An attack on the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza reportedly killed four Palestinians.
Israel also launched heavy strikes on Gaza City and other areas in the north overnight. According to Al Jazeera, at least six Palestinians were killed in strikes in Gaza City.
The Health Ministry said the latest violence brought its death toll since October 2023 to 45,854 and the number of wounded to 109,139.
In October, a group of American healthcare workers who volunteered in Gaza 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 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.
