The Israeli occupation forces continue to commit massacres against Palestinian families in the Gaza Strip for the sixth day in a row, while a spokesman for the Israeli occupation army confirmed that the military attack on the Islamic Resistance Movement “Hamas” focuses on eliminating the movement’s senior leaders, including its president, Yahya Sinwar.

Salama Maarouf, head of the government media office in the Gaza Strip, said that Israel committed nearly 30 massacres against Palestinian families during its war on the Strip since last Saturday, causing the deaths of hundreds, most of them women and children, the most recent of which was against the Shihab family, which claimed the lives of 31 martyrs and dozens of wounded.

The Ministry of Health in Gaza announced that the death toll from last Saturday until Thursday afternoon had risen to 1,417 martyrs, in addition to the injury of 6,268 others. It added that it recorded the death of 447 child martyrs and 248 female martyrs as a result of the occupation’s continued aggression against the Gaza Strip.

The Ministry warned that the delay in responding to the relief appeal makes the Gaza Strip a mass grave, while international relief organizations confirmed that the lifeline in Gaza has begun to fade, and the time has come to protect humanity there.

Marouf added that the occupation destroyed dozens of residential buildings and towers, in the Al-Karama area (north), Al-Shati camp (west), Al-Bureij (centre), and the cities of Rafah and Khan Yunis (south) and Deir Al-Balah (centre), with 752 residential buildings, including 2,835 units (apartments) demolished. In total, 32 thousand units were severely damaged, of which 1,791 units were uninhabitable, while 42 government headquarters and dozens of public facilities and installations were destroyed. The Israeli bombing also destroyed 89 schools, 9 of which were no longer fit for work, and 11 mosques.