The Ministry of Health in Gaza reported today, Monday, that the death toll from the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Strip since October 7 has risen to 41,455 martyrs and 95,878 wounded.
The ministry confirmed that the occupation committed 3 massacres against families, resulting in 24 martyrs and 60 wounded arriving at hospitals during the past 24 hours, stressing that a number of victims are still under the rubble and on the roads, and ambulance and civil defense crews cannot reach them.
The government media office in the Gaza Strip reported the day before yesterday that 22 people were killed, including 13 children and 6 women, and 30 others were injured in an Israeli bombardment that targeted a school housing displaced people in the Zeitoun neighborhood, south of Gaza City.
Yesterday, Sunday, Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent reported that several areas in the Gaza Strip were subjected to airstrikes, and that 7 people were killed and others were injured in an Israeli bombardment of the Kafr Qasim School, which houses displaced people in the Al-Shati camp, west of Gaza City.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent also reported that Israeli occupation aircraft targeted a house next to the shelters of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in the Al-Sikka area of Jabalia camp, north of the Gaza Strip.
The correspondent explained that injuries were recorded in an Israeli bombardment that targeted a number of homes in the Khirbet al-Adas area, north of Rafah city, in addition to the Israeli occupation forces blowing up residential buildings in the Tal al-Sultan neighborhood, west of Rafah.
This is accompanied by the difficult conditions experienced by the displaced people in the southern Gaza Strip, in light of the heavy rains that flooded their dilapidated tents and destroyed their contents.
UN statement
On Monday, senior UN officials called for “an end to the suffering and the horrific humanitarian catastrophe” in the Gaza Strip, nearly a year after the outbreak of war on the Strip.
“These atrocities must end,” said a statement signed by the heads of UN agencies including UNICEF and the World Food Programme, as well as other relief organizations.
They added in the statement – which was issued in conjunction with the presence of world leaders in New York to participate in the work of the United Nations General Assembly – that “humanitarian workers must have the ability to have safe and unrestricted access to those in need… We cannot carry out our tasks in light of these enormous needs and ongoing violence.”
The United Nations has long complained about obstacles to aid access and distribution in Gaza amid “total lawlessness” in the blockaded Palestinian enclave, with nearly 300 aid workers killed, more than two-thirds of them UN staff.
“The risk of famine remains with all 2.1 million people in urgent need of food amidst restrictions on humanitarian access,” UN officials said, adding that the destruction of the health care sector continues, with more than 500 attacks on health care services in Gaza.