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42,227 Palestinians killed in Israel’s war on Gaza
At least 42,227 Palestinians have been killed and 98,464 wounded in Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip since October 2023, the Health Ministry says. Israeli attacks killed at least 52 people and injured 128 others over the past 24 hours, the ministry added.
The death toll from Israel’s yearlong war on Gaza is likely far higher with thousands of bodies buried in the rubble of the vast destruction throughout the Palestinian enclave.
Israel ‘trying to transform’ northern Gaza: Media office
Ismail al-Thawarta, head of the Gaza Government Media Office, accused Israeli forces of stopping rescuers from assisting victims of attacks in Gaza’s besieged north.
“The Israeli army is preventing civil defence teams from recovering bodies and is intentionally trying to destroy the health system,” said al-Thawarta at a news conference.
“The Israeli occupation is committing genocide and killing people by attacking refugee camps and committing barbaric crimes as they continue to target places where women and children are gathered. The Israeli army is continuing to attack northern Gaza and is trying to transform it to a space of only genocide.”
Palestinians ‘ready to die in their homes’ rather than doing a ‘death march’
Bushra Khalidi, from the British charity Oxfam, says the hunger situation in besieged northern Gaza has deteriorated so drastically that people have resorted to eating animal feed, donkeys and horses just to survive.
The comments come as Israel’s military blocked food from entering northern Gaza for the past 10 days, something she called “unacceptable” as it cuts the area off completely.
“People are not surviving, people are very likely dying of starvation as they have been since the beginning of the war. The problem is we’re talking about levels of destruction that didn’t exist several months ago,” Khalidi told Al Jazeera.
“I don’t know how people will survive. It’s likely they’ll die of starvation, die from the massacres we’re seeing in the north, or die trying to evacuate to the south.”
She said most Palestinians are “ready to die in their homes” rather than doing the “death march” to southern Gaza, where Israeli attacks are also ongoing.
Quadcopters in northern Gaza ‘chasing and shooting’ civilians
The trapped civilian population in northern Gaza is being herded under heavy bombardment that has already destroyed the majority of buildings.
This is the third time air raids and ground incursions have occurred in the area since the start of the war. But this time the fear among residents is increasing because there’s no way out. Palestinians were ordered to evacuate but the Israeli military failed to provide a safe corridor.
Quadcopters and attack drones fill the skies of the northern part of the Strip, including Jabalia refugee camp, chasing and shooting at people indiscriminately over the past few days.
Journalists covering the crimes of the Israeli military were also targeted by these quadcopters.
