Jerusalem, Jul 4 (EFE).- The death toll in Israel’s nearly nine-month war in the Gaza Strip surpassed 38,000 on Thursday, mostly women and children, with 58 Gazans killed and 179 wounded in the last day.
The Hamas-controlled Health Ministry on Monday released its daily tally of new casualties in hospitals and morgues in the devastated Palestinian enclave, bringing the death toll to 38,011 and 87,445 wounded since October 7.
Added to these numbers is the estimated 10,000 bodies still buried under tons of rubble or in areas inaccessible to ambulances or rescue teams due to blockades or intense Israeli attacks across the Palestinian enclave.
Civil Defense teams today recovered the bodies of five Gazans, including some children, as a result of an Israeli bombardment once morest a school sheltering displaced people in the Al Daraj neighborhood of Gaza City, where the Israeli Army concentrates its attacks.
Also in the Gazan capital, four more civilians were killed and eight others wounded in an Israeli fighter plane bombing a house in the eastern Al Tuffah neighborhood of the city early in the morning, the Wafa news agency reported.
In these nine months of bombings, ground raids, hunger and disease, nine out of ten Gazans have been forcibly displaced from their homes at least once, some “up to nine or ten times,” said Andrea De Domenico, director in the Palestinian territories of the UN Office for Humanitarian Affairs.
Generators that are keeping Naser Hospital in the southern city of Khan Yunis running, the only main centre in the area following the European Hospital was put out of service, might run out in the next few hours due to a lack of fuel, medical sources said today.
Only 15 of the 36 hospitals in the Gaza Strip are still partially operational, according to health figures, and they face a severe shortage of workers and medical supplies, including anesthesia and antibiotics.
Around 500 health workers have been killed in the war, while hundreds more have been wounded and some 310 arrested, according to the ministry.
In total, some 130 ambulances have been destroyed in the ongoing war, which will be nine months old this weekend with no end in sight and unprecedented devastation.
The Israeli army, for its part, said it had eliminated dozens of militants in the last day and destroyed around fifty “targets” in the Strip, referring to tunnels, weapons or infrastructure.
In the Shujaiya neighbourhood, also in Gaza City, they claimed to have eliminated dozens of suspected militants “in hand-to-hand combat, with tank fire and air strikes,” according to a military statement.
In Rafah and in the centre of the Palestinian enclave, the armed forces also claimed to have killed militants in air strikes, while Palestinian sources reported attacks on the northwest of the Nuseirat refugee camp, the east of the city of Khan Yunis and the centre of Rafah.
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2024-07-04 17:26:09
