The number of deaths since the start of the Israeli offensive on October 7 totals almost 22,000, while the number of injured stands at 57,697. 70% of the total fatalities are women and children. About 7,000 people are also missing under the rubble.
Israeli attacks in Gaza have killed more than 150 Palestinians in the past 24 hours, Gaza Strip Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf al Qudra said on Monday, as fighting with militants and the Israeli occupation continues.
Recent Israeli bombings have left at least 156 dead and 246 injured, and the number of deaths since the Israeli offensive began on October 7 totals almost 22,000. Since then, 21,978 deaths have been confirmed, while the number of injured is 57,697, Gaza Health has specified.
About 7,000 people are also missing under the rubble, and he believes the total death toll could be higher, but the bodies have not yet been collected.
Health, in turn, emphasizes this 70% of the total fatalities are women and childrenwhile 30 hospitals and 53 primary care centers across Gaza are “out of service.”
On the other hand, the health spokesperson reiterated that Israel has still arrested 100 health workers, including “directors of hospitals in northern Gaza,” who are being held “in harsh conditions, exposed to extreme cold and interrogated under physical torture.” . and psychologically, hunger, thirst and lack of sleep.
According to Health, approximately 800,000 Gazans residing in the northern Gaza Strip – including Gaza City – now have virtually no access to medical services or hospitals, in a unprecedented situation of extreme humanitarian catastropheand as infectious diseases spread as a result of the war conflict.
Gaza continues to suffer from a lack of food, drinking water, medicine, basic supplies or fuel as a result of the harsh Israeli siege, which has allowed access to humanitarian aid to virtually no extent since the conflict broke out.
Repression in the West Bank
According to Palestinian sources, the number of arrests of Palestinians by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank is approaching 5,000 since October 7, while Israel claims it has detained only 2,250 people since then, including 1,300 linked to Hamas.
In the last few hours, 32 Palestinians have been detained in the territory of the West Bank, bringing to 4,910 the number of arrests in the area since the outbreak of war, all in a context of regional tensions in which Israeli raids and raids on Palestinian towns occur daily , according to the Commission on Detainee Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners Club.
In December, Palestinian authorities estimated that about 8,000 Palestinians were imprisoned in Israeli prisons, including about 2,800 who were detained. administrative detention, without charge, trial or date of release.
Violence in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict was very high before the Gaza offensive, but increased even more after October 7.
2023 was the deadliest year in the area since the Second Intifadakilling some 528 Palestinians, some of whom were militia members or attackers killed in clashes with Israeli forces, as well as civilians, including 112 minors.
According to Israeli NGO Yesh Din, 2023 was the most violent year in terms of settler actions against Palestinians in the West Bank. “At least 20 Palestinians were killed by settlers and dozens of houses and vehicles were burned,” in more than 1,200 incidents involving Israeli settlers documented by the UN in 2023, Yesh Din said in a statement.
Source: EITB
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