The number of people killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza from Israel broke a ceasefire The Palestinian armed group of Hamas last month exceeded 1,560, according to health officials.
In a new statement on Saturday, the Ministry of Health in Gaza said that Israeli attacks had killed at least 21 people during the last period of reporting 24 hours a day, bearing the overall number of deaths since Israel resumed its bombing of Gaza on March 18 to 1,563. According to rescuers, hundreds of them were children.
In total, 50,933 people were killed and 116,045 injured since the start of the war in October 2023, the ministry added in its last daily update.
On Saturday, an Israeli attack on the Tuffah district of Gaza killed at least people and injured two children. Two other Palestinians were killed in the district of Al-Aatra de Beit Lahiya, in the northern part of Gaza, with another killed in an Israeli drone attack against the Qizan An-Najjar region, south of Khan Younis.
Several victims were also reported after Israeli air raids on civilian tent shelters in the Al-Mawasi region, west of Khan Younis, which Israel had appointed a so-called “safe zone”.
Reporting from the outside of the Al-Ahli hospital in Deir El-Balah, Central Gaza, Hind Khoudary of Tel Aviv Tribune said that a newborn named Sham had succumbed to his injuries after his family had been struck in an attack.
“She was in a very critical condition where her arm was amputated and died a few hours later, because her injury was very critical and the doctors could not help her situation,” she said.
Khoudary reported that ambulances arriving daily to the hospital have mainly transported children and women.
“Due to the lack of medical supplies, most of these Palestinian children and women attend a very deteriorated situation,” she added.
“Post-apocalyptic”
On Friday, Shamdasani Ravina, spokesperson for the High Commissioner of the United Nations Human Rights, reported that 36 of the 224 Israeli strikes documented in Gaza, between March 18 and April 9, implied murders of women and children.
In a statement, the Palestinian rights group al-haq said that UN’s conclusions had confirmed a model that he previously identified.
“Such an effort calculated to exterminate women, boys, girls and even infants, has not been observed in any other modern conflict,” said Al-Haq in an article on social networks.
In an interview with Tel Aviv Tribune FrancThe head of the United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, described the situation in Gaza as a “post-apocalyptic” killing area.
Speaking on Friday at the Antalya diplomacy forum in Turkiye, Lazzarini also reiterated that Israel prevented the entry of food, fuel, medicine and other vital humanitarian supplies in Gaza since early March, contravening international law.
In an article separated on X on Saturday, UNRWA’s communications director Juliette Touma warned that all the basic supplies “exhaust” Gaza.
“This means that babies, children will go to bed hungry.”
Israel is committed to putting pressure on his military offensive, with officials in recent days, describing plans to grasp new bands of territories in the south of Gaza and issue a series of forced displacement orders.
“The Palestinians do not know where to go,” Khoudary said after the last Israeli orders on Saturday for Shujayea and Khan Younis.
According to UNRWA, some 400,000 Palestinians were forcibly moved across Gaza since the fragile ceasefire which entered into force in January collapsed almost a month ago.