The Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip said that the occupation army committed 4 massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, resulting in 60 martyrs and 110 injured in hospitals within 24 hours, while it continued its bombing of Rafah and displaced thousands of its residents.
The Ministry explained in a statement that with the new toll, the number of victims of the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip since October 7 had risen to 34,904 martyrs and 78,514 injured, as of Thursday afternoon.
This comes at a time when the occupation continued to bomb civilian homes, especially in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, where an Tel Aviv Tribune correspondent reported that two Palestinians were martyred in an Israeli bombing that targeted a house in the El Geneina neighborhood, east of the city.
The reporter added that the bombing left a number of people missing and injured, in addition to material losses.
He said that an Israeli artillery shelling targeted the eastern areas of the city of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, and the center of the city of Rafah on Friday morning.
The reporter also reported that two Palestinians were martyred and others were injured in an Israeli bombing that targeted a house for the Abdel-Al family on Yarmouk Street in central Gaza City.
He added that the occupation warplanes bombed a number of residential buildings in the Six Martyrs area in Jabalia camp, and confirmed that the bombing left martyrs and wounded.
Humanitarian catastrophe
In turn, the government media office in Gaza warned yesterday evening, Thursday, that a “deep humanitarian catastrophe” had begun to take shape as a result of the Israeli occupation army’s invasion of eastern Rafah Governorate and its occupation of the Rafah and Kerem Shalom crossings.
He added in a statement that this disaster was contributed by the Israeli army’s occupation of the two crossings, as well as its prevention of the entry of medical and food aid trucks and the travel of thousands of sick and wounded people.
The government office explained that during the past two days, the occupation forces prevented the entry of more than 400 aid trucks and the travel of wounded and sick people, including 159 cancer patients, and considered that this gives clear indications of a real crisis in Gaza.
He also stressed that what he described as the “crime of stopping aid” threatens the occurrence of famine for more than 1.7 million people living in the southern governorates of Gaza, holding the US administration, Israel and the international community “fully responsible” for the disaster and the deep humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
Forced displacement
For its part, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) announced yesterday, Thursday, that about 80,000 people fled Rafah within 3 days since Israel intensified its military operations in the city.
UNRWA said on the “X” platform that since the Israeli occupation forces intensified their operations on May 6, about 80,000 people have fled Rafah in search of another place to seek refuge, warning that “the losses of these families are unbearable, and there is no safe place.” .
1.5 million Palestinians live in Rafah, including displaced people living in temporary tents after fleeing northern Gaza in search of safety as a result of the genocidal operations launched by Israel in the northern and central Gaza Strip since last October 7.
Last Monday morning, the Israeli occupation army announced the start of a military operation in the city of Rafah under the pretext that the resistance was hiding there. It said that the operation would be “limited in scope,” and issued warnings to 100,000 Palestinians to forcibly evacuate the east of the city and head to the Al-Mawasi area, southwest of the Gaza Strip.