Gaza: 71 Palestinians were killed, 182 injured by Israeli bombings in last 24 hours
By Abdul Adil
(The Muslim News): 71 Palestinians were killed and 182 others injured by Israeli Defence Forces’ indiscriminate bombings in the last 24 hours in Gaza Strip, according to the Health Ministry. This has led to the number of Palestinians killed to 36,550 and 82,959 others injured by Israeli attacks since 7 October 2023 in Gaza reported the Health Ministry in the besieged enclave.
Meanwhile, Al Jazeera Arabic reported that an Israeli attack on a home near Deir el-Balah killed five people and injured many others.
It comes during a surge of strikes on central Gaza where many of the one million Palestinians fleeing the southernmost city of Rafah have sought refuge.
Earlier, intense Israeli air strikes and artillery shelling on the nearby Bureij and Maghazi camps killed and wounded dozens of people
Three civilians today were killed and many others were injured in an Israeli airstrike targeting the central Gaza Strip.
Local sources reported that the Israeli warplanes targeted a house in the al-Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, resulting in the killing of three civilians and the wounding of several others.
Seven civilians Tuesday were killed and 20 others were injured in an Israeli airstrike targeting a vehicle and a group of Palestinians near the entrance to a shelter center north of Deir al-Balah, south of Gaza City.
Local sources reported that the targeted area is crowded with displaced people near a college used as a shelter and housing hundreds of families.
He pointed to the remains of the victims and bloodstains scattered around the place and on parked vehicles.
At least eight Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a car and a people’s gathering near a shelter in Deir al-Balah city in the central Gaza Strip, on Tuesday morning.
A medical source at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital said eight Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike in the vicinity of the Palestine Technical College, which serves as a displaced people’s shelter.
Eyewitnesses told Anadolu Agency that the injured were transferred to a hospital on animal carts due to a lack of fuel in Gaza.
The struck area is crowded with people as the Israeli army has designated it as a safe zone, eyewitnesses added.
The Ministry of Health is yet to confirm the exact number of casualties.
At least 15 Palestinians were killed and injured in Israeli airstrikes on the Al-Bureij and Al-Maghazi refugee camps in the central Gaza Strip, the Gaza Health Ministry said Tuesday.
The medical teams on Tuesday recovered the bodies of 14 Palestinians after the Israeli military vehicles withdrew from the southeastern parts of Gaza City.
According to eyewitnesses, the Civil Defense teams recovered 14 bodies from the roads and under the rubble of destroyed homes in the Tal al-Hawa area in Gaza City.
The Israeli firing and shelling on the area have hindered the teams from recovering more bodies, witnesses added.
Meanwhile, the Civil Defense also said its teams recovered three bodies from under the rubble of a destroyed home for the Ghabayen family in the Al-Daraj neighborhood, eastern Gaza City, following an Israeli airstrike.
Further Israeli airstrikes and artillery shelling across the Gaza Strip left other Palestinians killed and injured, along with destruction in the residential areas.
Meanwhile,, Israel’s relentless bombardment and obstruction of humanitarian efforts are making it nearly impossible for aid agencies to reach starving Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, Oxfam reported on Tuesday.
The UK-based charity warned: “By the time a famine is officially declared, it will be too late to prevent widespread hunger and death.”
“When hunger claims many more lives, nobody will be able to deny the horrifying impact of Israel’s deliberate, illegal, and cruel obstruction of aid,” said Oxfam’s Middle East and North Africa Director Sally Abi Khalil.
Oxfam emphasized that Israel is legally obligated to allow the entry of goods necessary to meet Gaza residents’ basic needs and must ensure the continuous supply of all aid.
The charity noted that closed border crossings, ongoing airstrikes, evacuation notices, and a failing Israeli permission process has crippled the movement of humanitarian aid within Gaza.
These factors have created an untenable environment for effective aid operations, it said.
A minimum of 7,000 to over 11,000 Palestinian patients need immediate medical evacuations, a World Health Organization (WHO) official said on Tuesday.
The figure was given by Hanan Balkhy, WHO regional director for the Eastern Mediterranean, at a meeting in Geneva with the Association of the Accredited Correspondents to the United Nations.
Balkhy said that those patients who need evacuation are required to receive treatment in specialized hospitals.
She also underlined the “significant” ripple effects on Egypt, Lebanon, and Syria as the immediate neighbors of the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
“If you’re talking about leaving nobody behind, we are already leaving significant numbers behind from Gaza, but also, when there’s pressure on already fragile health systems in the neighboring countries,” she said and added: “So we have a lot of “work ahead of us.”
“If we do not have peace, that’s going to be an extremely challenging situation. We need peace within the borders to open up,” she said.
Asked by Anadolu about the number of people who died while waiting for medical evacuations, Inas Hamam, the regional head of emergency communications at WHO’s office for the Eastern Mediterranean, told the agency in a statement that data for that is “not available,” adding that the health information system in Gaza is in “tatters.”
She said that the WHO is coordinating with the Palestinian Health Ministry to improve registration processes.
“WHO is coordinating with the Ministry of Health on the list of patients registered for medical evacuation, but we do not have access to information on the numbers or status of patients who have died before being evacuated,” she added.
Last week, the WHO said that all medical evacuations in Gaza are under “abrupt halt” since May 7.
Meanwhile, Israeli occupation forces yesterday killed five Palestinians in the occupied West Bank cities of Nablus and Tulkarm, according to official sources.
In Nablus, according to WAFA correspondent, two Palestinians were shot and killed and others were injured Monday evening during the Israeli occupation forces’ continued assault on the city of Nablus.
According to the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS), two Palestinians were killed by live fire and nine others were injured, including some seriously, during the occupation’s military raid into the eastern part of the city of Nablus.
The two slain Palestinian youths were identified as Mutaz Khaled al-Nabulsi, 28, and Adam Salah-Addin Farraj, 23.
Ministry of Health confirmed that the body of Farraj remained in the custody of the Israeli occupation.
A few hours later, the Ministry said a third young Palestinian youth died of critical wounds he sustained during the ongoing Israeli military raid and assault on the city of Nablus.
The ministry said the young man was hit by live bullets in his chest, causing him critical injuries, adding that he transferred to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead shortly after. The youth was identified as 30-year-old Ahmad Omar Al-Khadri.
The death toll in Israel from Hamas’s attacks on 7 October is at least 1,139 with dozens of people still held captive in Gaza.
[Palestinians injured incl children by Israeli aerial & artillery bombardments in al-Burayj & Al Magazi refugee camps in Deir AL Balah, Gaza, waiting to b treated in Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital on 04 06 2024. Photojournalist: Ashraf Amra/ AA]
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