13,000 Gazans are dead and more than 6,000 missing under the rubble

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There are more than 30,000 injured, 75% of whom are children and women. In addition, 200 health workers, 22 civilian rescue workers, 104 UN workers and 60 communications professionals have been killed since October 7.

More of 6000 people are missing low debris or their bodies lie in the streets with no one to pick them up, as reported this Sunday by the Gaza Government Communications Office, which also confirmed: death of more than 13,000 people since the start of the Israeli offensive on October 7.

Most of the missing people, including 4,000 minors, are presumed dead, but emergency or rescue teams cannot reach them as the Israeli offensive on the enclave continues, which has lasted 44 days and caused a humanitarian crisis. million Palestinians with almost no food, water, medicine or fuel.

Between the 13,000 confirmed deaths, more than 5,500 children and 3,500 womenwhile they also killed more than 200 doctors, nurses and paramedics, as well as 22 civilian rescue workers. The injured surpass the 30,000and 75% of them are children and women, all in a place of increasingly widespread destruction as Israeli forces advance in their ground operation in Gaza, where they have already taken control of the north and a key part of Gaza City.

104 UNRWA workers killed and facilities attacked

The United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Middle East (UNRWA) has increased this Sunday to 104 your number dead workers as a result of the Israeli offensive against the Gaza Strip, including one killed in a bombing carried out in the north during the day on Saturday. “This is the highest number of UN workers killed in any conflict in history,” he recalled.

The Agency has reported “multiple incidents” affecting UNRWA facilities and internally displaced persons over the past 24 hours, events that have resulted in “deaths and injuries among internally displaced persons sheltering in the facilities.”

“Around 160,000 internally displaced persons had taken shelter in 57 UNRWA schools in the north and Gaza City on October 12, before the evacuation order was issued by Israeli authorities,” they said.

The organization detailed that nearly 1.7 million Palestinians have been displaced in the Gaza Strip since October 7. Of the total, about 884,000 are in 154 UNRWA facilities in the Strip, including about 724,000 in 97 facilities in the Center, Khan Younis and Rafah areas, where Israel has called on residents to move from the north.


Temporary UN camp in Khan Yunis.  EFE

60 communications professionals murdered

Four journalists and two local media workers were killed this Saturday under Israeli bombardments, on a day described as “bloody” by the Palestinian Union of Journalists.

Since October 7 60 Gazans who worked in journalism or were influencers on social networks have been murdered since Oct. 7, according to the Government Communications Office. “Journalists are a prime target among the many targeted against our people,” in attacks that “aim to silence the voice of truth.”

Since the outbreak of war, journalists in Gaza have paid a high price. Some of them died while reporting on the ground, and others in their own homes, where they died in bombings together with other members of their families, as happens to thousands of civilians in the Gaza Strip, or in direct attacks on their vehicles.

Source: EITB

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