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Gaza total death toll rises
Gaza Health Ministry says the death toll from the Israeli aggression has risen to 53,339, while 121,034 people have been injured since October 7, 2023. It added that 361 injured were taken to hospitals in the past 24 hours.
In a statement on Telegram, the ministry said among those killed were five Palestinians whose bodies were recovered from under the rubble after recent attacks.
‘Hundreds of families erased from civil registry’: Gaza’s Civil Defence
A Civil Defence spokesman says more than 200 people are missing under the rubble and emergency teams are unable to reach them.
“Hundreds of families have been erased from the civil registry due to the Israeli bombing,” the spokesman said in a statement on Telegram.
“Those who do not die from Israeli bombing in Gaza die of hunger,” he added.
Three out of 4 Gaza Civil Defence vehicles ‘out of service’; services to stop ‘within 72 hours’
The intensity of Israeli air strikes continues to increase, rendering Gaza’s Civil Defence unable to respond to emergency calls, the service says in a statement on Telegram.
The organisation said it is experiencing a “shortage of essential resources, most critically fuel, heavy rescue equipment, spare parts, and vehicle repair supplies”.
“As a result, we announce that 75 percent of civil defence vehicles are now out of service across all governorates of the Gaza Strip due to the unavailability of the necessary fuel to operate them,” it said.
The statement added that Israel “continues to block the entry of fuel, even in minimal quantities, required to keep our humanitarian services running”.
It warned that all vehicle services might stop “within the next 72 hours” if fuel is not delivered to the enclave.
North Gaza hospitals in ‘a catastrophic situation’
Sakher Hamad, director of northern Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital, says dozens of injured people are flooding into the hospitals in the region.
“There is no coordination for evacuating the [Kamal Adwan] hospital, and what is happening is a risk,” Hamad told Al Jazeera.
The enclave’s Health Ministry announced earlier that all public hospitals in northern Gaza are “out of service” after the Indonesian Hospital, the only functional facility in the region, was raided by Israeli forces.
Gaza’s children ‘stronger than adults, but can’t fight hunger’
While children in Gaza have shown enormous strength throughout the horrors of the war, the pain they endure, including from hunger, has become “overwhelming”, says Afeef Nessouli, a volunteer with medical group Glia International who often visits the Strip’s orphanages.
“They are suffering in a way they don’t understand and maybe have never had a full explanation as to why they are living in such an unfair, unjust manner,” he told Al Jazeera.
Palestinians, mostly children, wait in long lines with empty pots in their hands to get food aid distributed by the World Food Programme at the Nuseirat refugee camp on April 26
