The Israeli occupation continues its genocidal war on the Gaza Strip for the 160th day in a row, leaving tens of thousands of deaths and injuries among Palestinians.
The Ministry of Health in Gaza announced that the death toll since the start of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip has risen to 31,341 Palestinians, and 73,134 were wounded, 72 percent of whom are women and children.
The Ministry said that in the past 24 hours alone, the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) committed seven massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, leaving 69 dead and 110 wounded, while a number of victims are still under rubble and on the roads, as ambulance and civil defence crews cannot reach them.
The Ministry noted that the death toll from malnutrition and dehydration had risen to 27 deaths.
According to the government office in the Gaza Strip; the IOF has committed more than 2,761 massacres since October 7, where 13,790 children, 9,100 women, 364 medical personnel, 48 civil defence personnel, and 133 journalists were killed.
It added that the number of missing persons reached 7,000, 72 percent of whom were children and women.
The number of those arrested during the war was 269 medical personnel and 10 journalists.
It added that around 17,000 Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip are currently living without their families since the start of the genocide, as there are children whose parents, both or one of them, were killed, arrested, missing under the rubble, or those whose parents’ fate remains unknown due to the ongoing war.
The Israeli occupation exhumed more than 2,000 graves by bulldozing and destroying 13 cemeteries in the Gaza Strip. The IOF stole more than 300 bodies of those buried in these cemeteries. It also violated the sanctities of dozens of bodies, mutilated and stole vital organs from them, before returning them to be buried in mass graves in the southern Gaza Strip.
The media office added that there are 11,000 patients in critical conditions, who need to travel for treatment, while 10,000 cancer patients face the risk of death.
The office noted that 700,000 people were infected with infectious diseases as a result of displacement, and the number of displaced people in the Gaza Strip reached more than two million, while there are 8,000 cases of viral hepatitis infection due to displacement, and 60,000 pregnant women are at risk due to lack of health care, and 350 patients with chronic diseases who are at risk due to the lack of medications.
The occupation forces dropped 70,000 tons of explosives on Gaza, destroying 166 government headquarters, 405 schools and universities, 512 mosques, three churches, and 200 archaeological sites.
70,000 housing units were completely destroyed by the IOF missiles, 290,000 housing units became unfit for habitation.
32 hospitals and 53 health centres became out of service, 155 health institutions were partially destroyed, and 126 ambulances were completely destroyed.
Since October 7, 2023, the IOF has been waging a devastating war on the Gaza Strip, resulting in catastrophic humanitarian and health conditions, due to the continuous bombing and the prevention of supplies of food, water, medicine, and electricity.
The Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip constitutes a blatant violation of international humanitarian law and human rights, as it exposes the lives and property of civilians to extreme danger, which requires urgent intervention from the international community to stop the aggression and protect civilians in the Gaza Strip.
This international community must force the IOF to adhere to international laws and treaties on human rights and international humanitarian law. They must be obliged to protect the rights and lives of civilians, prohibit their targeting and preserve their safety, and punish the leaders responsible for committing war crimes in the Gaza Strip and elsewhere.
