In addition, nearly 18,500 Palestinians have been injured by the airstrikes. Similarly, the Israeli army has attacked 57 health facilities and put twelve hospitals and 32 health centers out of service due to bombing or lack of fuel.
The death toll from Israel’s 20-day bombardment of the Gaza Strip in response to the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) attacks on October 7 has risen to more than 7,000, according to this report. of the enclave, controlled by the Islamist group.
Gaza’s Health Ministry has said that 7,028 deaths have been confirmed so far, including 2,913 children, while nearly 18,500 Palestinians have been injured by the airstrikes, according to the Palestinian newspaper. Filastineaffiliated with Hamas.
He also stated that the Israeli army It has “deliberately” attacked 57 health facilities and put 12 hospitals and 32 health centers out of service due to bombing or lack of fuel, as reported by the Palestinian news agency Maan.
Added to this death toll are more than a hundred deaths in the West Bank as a result of operations carried out by the Israeli army and attacks by settlers since the October 7 attacks, which killed nearly 1,400 and kidnapped more than 220 in Israeli territory.
United Nations stated that ‘There is no safe place in Gaza’. The UN Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Lynn Hastings, has indicated that “the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) continue to inform the people of Gaza City that those who remain at home will be endangering themselves.”
For example, in a statement published by his office, Hastings emphasized that “for people who cannot evacuate, either because they have nowhere to go or because they cannot move, advance warnings make no difference.”
“When evacuation routes are bombed, when people in the north and south are trapped by hostilities, when goods essential for survival are in short supply and when there are no guarantees of return, people are faced with impossible choices,” he lamented .
For his part, Amnesty International (AI) asked for one today immediate ceasefire with the aim of preventing further loss of life and civilians and ensuring access to essential aid to the Strip to address the “unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe”.
Source: EITB
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