The latest figures from the Health Ministry come as Israeli bombardments on the besieged territory intensify.
More than 10,000 people have been killed in 31 days of relentless Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian health officials, with no sign of a ceasefire in the besieged enclave.
In a statement Monday, Gaza’s health ministry said the death toll rose to at least 10,022 Palestinians, including 4,104 children, with many victims still trapped under rubble and an Israeli siege drying up the area. access to vital goods such as fuel, food and electricity. .
“The number (of deaths) is expected to rise as at least 2,000 people remain under the rubble. The problem is that due to the lack of equipment and heavy machinery, rescue teams on the ground are unable to remove these bodies from the rubble,” Al Jazeera correspondent Hani Mahmoud reported from Khan Younis in southern Gaza.
The number of people injured since the bombing began on October 7 rose to 25,408, a Health Ministry spokesperson said, adding that Israel had carried out 18 attacks in the past few hours, killing 252 people. .
While Israel has promised to destroy the Palestinian armed group Hamas, which carried out attacks in southern Israel on October 7 which, according to Israeli authorities, killed more than 1,400 people, most of them civilians, the The humanitarian situation in Gaza has reached a critical point under constant Israeli bombardment. .
Running out of fuel, 16 of Gaza’s 35 hospitals have been forced to suspend operations as the number of injured rises and the UN says more than 1.5 million people, more than half the population of Gaza, were displaced.
As living conditions in Gaza deteriorate further and the death toll continues to rise, calls are growing for an end to the fighting. In late October, the United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly in favor of a resolution calling for an immediate humanitarian truce.
Israel and its most powerful ally, the United States, have rejected calls for a ceasefire, saying an end to the fighting would give Hamas time to regroup. The United States has said it would support a brief pause in fighting to allow more aid to enter Gaza, but Israel has shown little enthusiasm for the idea.
As Israel steps up its ground operations inside Gaza and continues its campaign of airstrikes, Palestinians fear there is no end in sight.
“Are you enjoying this… horror movie?” Zak Hania, a resident of al-Shati refugee camp, asked world leaders in an interview with Al Jazeera.
“How many people have to die, (have) to be killed, for the people, for the world, for the leaders of the world to act and do something? We called for a ceasefire. We are all civilians.
