The Ministry of Health in Gaza announced on Tuesday that the number of victims of the Israeli aggression had risen to 24,285 martyrs and 61,154 injured since October 7, while the United Nations accused Israel of obstructing the arrival of humanitarian aid to the Strip.
The Ministry of Health said that the Israeli occupation army committed 15 massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, leaving 158 martyrs and 320 injured during the past 24 hours.
The Ministry added that 350,000 people suffer from chronic diseases without medication, and the Ministry called on international institutions to provide medicines urgently.
In turn, the Palestinian Red Crescent said that the occupation forces asked it to evacuate Al-Quds Hospital in the Tal Al-Hawa neighborhood, west of Gaza City.
Israeli bombing
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent reported that 13 martyrs were recovered from the Maghazi camp in the central Gaza Strip as a result of the Israeli bombing.
The reporter added that an Israeli bombing targeted fishermen and citizens in the Gaza sea port, leaving two martyrs and a number of wounded, while the continuous Israeli bombing of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip since this morning caused the death of 10 citizens.
The occupation artillery shelling of Al Daraj School, which houses displaced people in Gaza City, with two shells, caused a number of casualties.
In the northern Gaza Strip, occupation aircraft and artillery intensified their bombardment on the city and Jabalia camp, amid clashes with machine guns between the Palestinian resistance and the occupation forces.
Engineering teams in the occupation army also blew up residential neighborhoods in Gaza, Jabalia, and Khan Yunis.
The devastating Israeli war on the Gaza Strip left an “unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe” and caused the displacement of more than 85% of the Strip’s population within 3 months, which is equivalent to 1.9 million people, according to data issued by the Palestinian authorities and the United Nations.
International accusations
In a related context, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said that since the beginning of 2024, Israel has doubled the restrictions on the access of relief missions to the Gaza Strip, and warned of an increase in health and environmental risks as a result.
The UN Office said – in a statement – that during the first two weeks of this January, only 7 out of 29 missions scheduled to deliver food, medicine, water and other life-saving supplies succeeded in reaching their destinations north of the Gaza Valley.
He added that most of the cases included refusal to deliver fuel and medicines to the areas north of the Gaza Valley, in the Gaza and North Gaza governorates.
For its part, the World Food Program warned of “spreading hunger in Gaza,” as people are starving in places where food aid has not reached.
Director of the World Food Program in Palestine, Samer Abdel Jaber, said, “Everyone in Gaza suffers from hunger, and the Integrated Interim Classification of Food Security and Nutrition showed that there are devastating levels of food insecurity in Gaza.”