Bloody Saturday in Gaza leaves 90 dead and 205 wounded at the hands of Israel

A total of 89 Gazans have been killed and 205 wounded in the past two days in the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said on Saturday, bringing the death toll since October 40.691 to 7.

“The Israeli occupation has committed five massacres against families in the Gaza Strip over the past 5 hours, causing 48 deaths and 89 injuries in hospitals,” said a statement from the Hamas-controlled ministry, which put the total number of injured at 205.

At least seventeen Palestinians were killed last night in the western Nuseirat refugee camp in the centre of the Gaza Strip, nine of them in an attack by two Israeli artillery shells on a building, Palestinian sources reported today.

Four others were killed in an Israeli bombing of the top floor of a residential building, and four more were killed in an attack on a family home in the Al-Hasayna neighborhood, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.

In Khan Yunis, in the south of the enclave, “five civilians were killed and 15 other members of the Abu Bakr family were injured” in the bombing of a house in Al Jabour, according to the same media.

In the devastated northern Gaza City, Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) medics transported three bodies and several wounded people to Baptist Hospital after Israeli warplanes attacked a house in the Sabra neighborhood south of the Gazan capital.

In the Zeitun neighbourhood, according to Wafa, three other Palestinians lost their lives when an Israeli missile bombed their house, while a fourth died in an airstrike on an apartment in the Jabalia camp (north).

Following the latest evacuation orders by Israeli forces in Deir al-Balah and Khan Yunis, overcrowding and living conditions in the humanitarian area of ​​Al Mawasi, which has shrunk to around 14 percent of the Strip, have become even more difficult.

“Overcrowding, a huge lack of water and a lack of sanitation facilities are fuelling the spread of disease. We are unable to cope with the enormous number of needs,” a coordinator for Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said yesterday.

The NGO said it sees between 300 and 400 cases a day at a clinic in the area, of which 200 are related to skin conditions that are usually contagious and, above all, affect children.