174 Palestinians killed in last 24 hours
Many are still trapped under rubble and on the roads as rescuers are unable to reach them
At least 174 Palestinians were killed and 310 others injured in the last 24 hours as the Israeli army continues its onslaught on the besieged Gaza Strip, the territory’s Health Ministry said on Saturday.
“The Israeli occupation committed 18 massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, leaving 174 martyrs and 310 injured during the past 24 hours,” the ministry said in a statement.
“Many people are still trapped under rubble and on the roads as rescuers are unable to reach them,” the statement said.
With the latest Palestinian casualties, the death toll from Israel’s ongoing attacks on Gaza since October 7 has risen to 26,257, with 64,797 others injured, the ministry said.
Israel has pounded the Gaza Strip since a cross-border attack by Hamas on October 7, which Tel Aviv says killed nearly 1,200 people.
The Israeli offensive has left 85 per cent of Gaza’s population internally displaced amid acute shortages of food, clean water, and medicine, while 60 per cent of the enclave’s infrastructure was damaged or destroyed, according to the UN.
Young man killed in West Bank
Israeli soldiers killed a young man in his 20s with indiscriminate fire during an overnight incursion into a village in the West Bank, Palestinian media reported on Saturday.
The official news agency Wafa reported that ‘a twenty-sevenyear-old Palestinian was killed overnight after being shot by Israeli forces’ live fire during con
frontations in the village of Deir Abu Deif, northeast of Jenin’.
Israeli forces stormed the village and sealed off its entrances, provoking residents and sparking confrontations, the agency said.
During the confrontations, Israeli soldiers fired live ammunition at residents, seriously injuring Qassam Ahmad Yasin, who died from his injuries shortly after, the news agency said.
According to the Palestinian
Health Ministry, at least 373 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank since October 7.
‘Running out of supplies’
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday that 350 patients and 5,000 displaced residents remain at Nasser Hospital which is running out of fuel, food and supplies in
southern Gaza.
As fighting intensifies around the hospital in Khan Younis, hundreds of patients and health workers have fled, said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
“Currently 350 patients and 5000 displaced people remain at the hospital. The hospital is running out of fuel, food and supplies,” he wrote on X, with an accompanying video from the hospital.
He said fighting continues in the vicinity of the hospital and noted access for resupplying the ‘remains challenging’.
“We appeal for a an immediate ceasefire, so that we can replenish urgently needed lifesaving supplies,” he said.
‘Much-needed light’
An interim ruling by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for Israel to take measures to prevent acts of genocide in the Gaza Strip is a ‘much-needed light in the darkness’, a Uk-based lawyers’ group on Palestinian rights said on Friday.
“It is a historic day for clearly recognising the fundamental human rights of Palestinians, including their fundamental right to life, and an important vindication of the vital resort to law to uphold fundamental rights,” Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights (LPHR) said in a statement. Noting that the order is legally binding on Israel and automatically sent to the UN Security Council, it said all governments and UN bodies should take tangible action to ensure that Israel complies.
“Whilst this historic legal case takes its course, we strongly reemphasise that it remains deeply imperative that all diplomatic measures be urgently exercised to deliver an immediate ceasefire,” it said.
LPHR added that the order is ‘crucially important’ but will not, on its own, end the extreme human suffering and acute struggle for survival. The ICJ ordered Israel to take ‘all measures within its power’ to prevent acts of genocide in Gaza.south Africa, which brought the case, had asked the court for provisional measures against Israel.
The Israeli occupation committed 18 massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, leaving 174 martyrs and 310 injured during past 24 hours PALESTINIAN HEALTH MINISTRY