The number of Palestinians killed in the military offensive that Israel has carried out in the Gaza Strip since October 2023 increased this Sunday (06/02/2024) to 36,439, 70 percent of them women and children, after about 60 more deaths in recent years. 24 hours, according to the count of the Gazan Ministry of Health, controlled by Hamas (a group considered terrorist by the European Union).
“The Israeli occupation committed 4 massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, including 60 dead and 220 wounded during the last 24 hours,” the Ministry reported, increasing the total number of wounded known to hospitals to 82,627. Furthermore, authorities estimate that more than 10,000 bodies remain under the rubble, with ambulance and civil defense teams unable to recover them due to insecurity or lack of fuel.
On the last day, the Israeli offensive focused on both the northern city of Gaza and Rafah, whose only humanitarian crossing – where wounded Gazans were evacuated to Egypt – remains closed since Israel occupied the Palestinian side on May 6. For its part, the Israeli Army said it continues to carry out “precise” operations in Rafah, in addition to bombing in central Gaza against military infrastructure, weapons depots and combat cells.
Corpses in Yabalia
The latest Israeli attacks in Gaza have also killed civilians, including a woman and a baby in Gaza City, according to Wafa. The deaths reported this day by Hamas authorities do not include the 120 bodies recovered in recent days by civil defense teams in Jabalia, in the north of the enclave, after the end of an almost three-week Israeli military incursion that has turned this refugee camp, the largest in Gaza, into ruins.
Israel’s military offensive began in response to the attack carried out by Hamas commandos on October 7, when they broke into Israeli territory and kidnapped some 250 people, in addition to killing 1,189, mostly civilians, according to a report carried out by the agency. AFP news report based on official Israeli data.
DZC (EFE, AFP)
