Gaza: at least 69 people died in Israeli attacks and another 110 were injured in the last 24 hours

At least 69 people died and another 110 were injured in the Gaza strip in the last 24 hours, following new air and artillery attacks carried out by Israeli troops on the 160th day of the war offensive.

“The number of victims of Israeli aggression has increased to 31,341 martyrs and 73,134 injured since October 7th,” reported this Thursday the Ministry of Health in Gaza, controlled like the rest of the enclave by Hamas.

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Furthermore, it is estimated that around 8,000 bodies remain under the rubble, while according to the ministry “the occupation prevents ambulances and civil protection teams from reaching them”.

Also this morning, at least 15 Gazans, according to sources on the ground, not combatants but civilians, were killed in two Israeli attacks in the north and center of Gaza. Gaza strip.

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In first, Around six Gazans lost their lives and another 83 were injured by gunfire, according to emergency services sources, while awaiting the distribution of humanitarian aid at the Kuwait roundabout, south of Gaza City (north), where deadly incidents like this have been repeated in recent weeks.

And in the center of the enclave, at least nine people were killed after an Israeli air strike against the al Attar family home, in the Bureij refugee camp, sources on the ground reported today, according to the news agency. Wafa.

For its part, the Israeli Army confirmed today new military operations in the center and south of Gaza, as well as the death of a dozen suspected militants both in the city of Hamad, in the south – where Israeli troops have been deployed for 12 days – and in the Bani Suheila area, both in Khan Yunis (south).

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“Yesterday, a mortar fired from central Gaza towards Kibbutz Nahal Oz, in southern Israel, landed inside the Gaza Strip. Within minutes, the terrorists responsible for the launch attempt were attacked and eliminated in an air strike, a military statement said today.

In LinkAfter 160 days of land, sea and air warfare, 85% of the population has been displaced and around 60% of all infrastructure has been damaged, according to the UN, with entire families crammed into plastic tents with barely any breathing or drinking water.

At least 27 people, most of them children, have died from malnutrition in the north, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.

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With the expected arrival between today and tomorrow of the ship from the Spanish NGO Open Arms with 200 tons of food on the coast of Link – inaugurating the maritime corridor -, as well as a new humanitarian route opened yesterday in the north of the enclave, the first after three weeks in that area without receiving humanitarian aid, it is expected that hunger will begin to diminish.

“The delivery of aid was facilitated after all of the ship’s equipment was subjected to a thorough security check, and accompanied by Israeli officials, to ensure that only humanitarian aid reached Gaza,” the Israeli Army detailed today in a statement. communicated about the ship that set sail. on Tuesday from the port of Larnaca in Cyprus.

Source: Elcomercio

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