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The Palestinian Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip announced that the death toll and number of injured as a result of Israeli raids on the Strip during the past twenty-four hours reached 12 dead and 43 injured, which is the lowest number in several months.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip announces in a daily report since the beginning of the Israeli war on Gaza, the numbers of dead and injured on a daily basis.
The latest report, issued on Tuesday, showed that the death toll and the number of wounded had dropped significantly to the lowest in several months, as the intensity of Israeli airstrikes and artillery shelling declined due to the current escalation of confrontations between the Israeli army and Hezbollah in Lebanon.
In the latest statistics, the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip said that 41,445 Palestinians were killed and about 96,000 were injured, most of them women and children, since the war began on October 7.
On Tuesday, six Palestinians, including two children, were killed in an Israeli bombardment of a house in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip, according to the official Palestinian news agency, WAFA.
The agency quoted medical sources as saying that 6 Palestinians were killed and others were injured when the occupation targeted a house in the new camp in Nuseirat with a missile attack.
“The spread of skin diseases” among Palestinian detainees in the Negev
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Affairs Authority and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club said that skin diseases are spreading among Palestinian detainees in the Negev Desert Prison.
The Commission spoke about the testimonies of eight detainees who said that they “are subjected to difficult and tragic conditions that language is unable to convey the reality of what is happening to them in real time inside the prison, especially at the current stage due to the spread of skin diseases among them, specifically scabies, which has become a tool of torture and abuse.”
According to one of the detainees in the Negev prison, whose name the Prisoners’ Affairs Authority preferred not to mention, he is 35 years old and was arrested in November 2023. “In addition to the torture crimes he was subjected to, he spoke at length about the spread of scabies, as he confirmed that the majority of detainees suffer from the spread of boils on their bodies, and infections resulting from the severe itching they suffer from.”
He added that they do not receive the most basic types of treatment, “and the detention conditions are still very harsh and difficult, with a lack of hygiene…”
WAFA news agency quoted the authority as saying, “There are about 1,200 detainees from Gaza in the Negev prison, distributed across eight sections, each section containing 150 detainees.”
Guterres says Gaza a ‘perpetual nightmare’, leaders call for ceasefire
Comment on the image, António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, speaks during the United Nations General Assembly at United Nations Headquarters on September 24, 2024 in New York City
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday denounced the situation in Gaza before the General Assembly in New York, describing it as a “perpetual nightmare” that threatens “the entire region.”
According to Agence France-Presse, Guterres called again for an “immediate” ceasefire.
“Gaza is a permanent nightmare that threatens to drag the entire region into chaos,” he told the leaders of 193 countries at the United Nations, warning of “the possibility of turning Lebanon into another Gaza.”
Hamas confirmed in a statement addressed to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday that it expects “immediate action” to end the war in Gaza, noting that it will not enter into any new negotiations regarding a ceasefire.
The movement said, “We demand immediate action to stop the Israeli aggression and the war of extermination against our people in the Gaza Strip,” adding, “We affirm our firm position not to engage in new negotiations that give the occupation cover to continue its aggression.”
In his speech to the United Nations General Assembly, US President Joe Biden said it was time to “get it done” on Gaza and “stop this war.”
For his part, the Turkish President called for an “immediate and permanent” ceasefire in Gaza, “an exchange of hostages and prisoners, and the unimpeded delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza.”
Jordanian King Abdullah II bin Al Hussein also called for aid to be brought into the Strip, saying, “UN aid trucks stand idle, just miles away from starving Palestinians,” noting that “the unprecedented scale of atrocities unleashed on Gaza cannot be justified.”
Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani also stressed that the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip was “genocide” as he addressed world leaders during the United Nations General Assembly.
He said, “What the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip are being subjected to today in terms of blatant aggression is the most barbaric and hideous and the most in violation of human values, international charters and norms,” adding, “This is not a war in the known and common concept of war in international relations, but rather a crime of genocide using the most modern weapons.”
