Daily death toll is going up again
Gaza’s death toll rises
At least 34,262 Palestinians have been killed and 77,229 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7, its Health Ministry says.
The ministry added that 79 people were killed and 86 injured in the latest 24-hour reporting period.
Palestinians wounded in Bureij camp rushed to hospital
The ambulance crew of the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) picked up five people wounded in the camp and took them to hospital for urgent treatment.
As we reported earlier, Israeli forces have been carrying out air strikes and shelling homes in Bureij camp, located in the centre of the enclave, causing numerous civilian casualties.
🚑The Palestine Red Crescent ambulance teams transported five injured individuals from the Al-Bureij refugee camp in the middle of the Gaza Strip following the occupation's shelling of civilians' homes.
📷 Filmed by PRCS volunteer: Ahmed Wishah. pic.twitter.com/WilbyM1W1D
— PRCS (@PalestineRCS) April 24, 2024
‘It is as if the war started again’
Palestinians are fleeing their homes in northern Gaza just weeks after returning due to Israeli bombardments, which have once again resumed there. Many say it is just as intense as at the start of the war.
Residents in the suburbs of Gaza City in particular reported heavy shelling.
“We don’t know why this is all happening. Is it because we returned home and we finally got some aid through after months of starvation and the Israelis didn’t like that?” Mohammad Jamal, 29, a resident of Gaza City near Zeitoun, one of Gaza’s oldest neighbourhoods, told the Reuters news agency through a messaging app.
“It is as if the war started again, as if it is just happening. They burned up the place.”
Israel renewed its attacks in the area this week after some time of relative calm, having previously withdrawn many of its troops from the north of the Strip.
Residents of northern Gaza flee again as Israel intensifies attacks
Palestinian civilians are fleeing their homes again in northern Gaza. Israeli shelling is focused for a second day on Beit Lahiya where the Israeli military ordered four neighbourhoods to evacuate, warning residents they’re in a “dangerous combat zone”.
People in the suburbs of Gaza City also reported heavy shelling.
Amjad Aleway, an emergency doctor in Gaza City, speaking in the ruins of al-Shifa Hospital, said: “The number of casualties is overwhelming, and we lack sufficient operating theatres to address them.”
Israel shells house in Deir el-Balah, video shows
The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) has released footage showing the shelling of a house near its headquarters in Deir el-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip.
Video shows the shelling of a house near the Palestine Red Crescent Society headquarters in Deir al-Balah, central #Gaza Strip.
📷Filmed by PRCS volunteer: Ahmed Wishah pic.twitter.com/B0GeswUJCu
— PRCS (@PalestineRCS) April 24, 2024
Mother and child killed by Israeli attack on Gaza City
Palestinian news agency Wafa has said the two were killed during an Israeli air attack on a house west of Gaza City. Israeli jets bombed the home of the Hamid family near Shati (Beach) refugee camp, Wafa reported, killing Amna Hamid, and her son, 12-year-old Mahdi, as well as wounding six others.
At least three citizens were also killed, and dozens were injured, after Israeli forces shelled a house in the Nassr neighbourhood, also west of Gaza City.
Israeli forces also pounded the Ma’an and al-Mawasi areas in Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip, leading to the death of two citizens and the injury of several others, Wafa reported.
