The number of deaths in the Gaza Strip, where Israel has continued an intense war offensive for a year, this Wednesday it exceeded 42,000, the majority women and childrenafter a night of attacks in the north and center of the Palestinian enclave.
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“The Israeli occupation commits three massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, including 45 martyrs and 130 wounded during the last 24 hours,” the Ministry of Health detailed today in a statement, which also put the total number of wounded treated in 97,720. the hospital network from October 7, 2023.
The death toll thus increased to 42,010, including more than 16,900 children and about 11,500 women, which amounts to 69% of the total.according to data from the Hamas Government. Among the first, there are more than 700 who died before reaching one year of age.
In the last few hours, at least 18 Gazans were killed in attacks in the center and north of the enclave, where new Israeli evacuation orders, artillery and bombing are endangering the lives of some 400,000 Gazans who still remained in the north of the Strip.
According to medics from the Palestinian Red Crescent emergency teams, a family of nine was massacred in the bombing of two houses, near the local market, in the Shujaiya neighborhood, east of northern Gaza City.
Meanwhile, in the central area of the Nuseirat refugee camp, medics confirmed having recovered three lifeless bodies, including that of a child, after another bombing by a fighter jet against a residence. According to Wafa, the victims were taken to Al Awda Hospital in the area.
Furthermore, in the early hours of dawn, Four other people died, including a child, after an aircraft attack on the Bureij camp (center), an area that the Israeli Army ordered to evacuate four days ago due to increasing attacks..
Israeli incursions continued around the main hospitals in northern Gaza, Kamal Adwan, Indonesian and Al Awda, also under evacuation orders and where there are a total of 317 hospitalized patients, including 80 in intensive care.
“The latest move to forcibly and violently expel thousands of people from northern Gaza to the south is turning the north into a lifeless desert, while aggravating the situation in the south, where more than a million people They already live trapped in a small portion of the Strip in deplorable conditions,” denounced today a coordinator of Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Gaza, Sarah Vuylsteke.
For their part, a group of humanitarian organizations, including Oxfam Intermón, ActionAid and the Norwegian Refugee Council, They warned in a statement that there is no safe place in Gaza.
“Civilians who do not leave the (evacuated) area do not lose their right to protection. According to international humanitarian law, Israel is defined as an occupying power,” which, according to the groups, entails “obligations to guarantee the protection of civilians”.
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