Gaza death toll surpasses 34,700
Gaza City, Palestine - At least 34,735 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s ongoing offensive on the Gaza Strip since last October, Gaza’s Health Ministry said on Monday.
A ministry statement added that 78,108 other people have also been injured in the onslaught. “Israeli attacks killed 52 people and injured 90 others in the last 24 hours,” the statement said.
“Many people are still trapped under rubble and on the roads as rescuers are unable to reach them,” it added.
Israel has waged an unrelenting offensive on the Gaza Strip since a cross-border attack by the Palestinian group Hamas last October 7 which killed some 1,200 people.
Tel Aviv has also imposed a crippling blockade on the Gaza Strip, leaving its population, particularly residents of northern Gaza, on the verge of starvation.
More than six months into the Israeli war, vast swathes of Gaza lay in ruins, pushing 85 per cent of the enclave’s population into
internal displacement amid a crippling blockade of food, clean water and medicine, according to the UN.
Meanwhile, the Israeli army bombed a building belonging to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) in the Gaza Strip late on Sunday, local media reported. Israel’s state broad
caster KAN said Israeli forces claimed the building was a “military command center” used by the Palestinian group Hamas.
Apart from the attack, many people died in airstrikes carried out by Israeli warplanes on two schools in Gaza where displaced families had taken shelter.
The Israeli army bombed a building belonging to the UNRWA in the Gaza Strip late on Sunday