PALESTINE
Mon 30 Oct 2023 7:36 pm - Jerusalem Time
24th day war on Gaza: 8,382 killed and 23,000+ wounded in the Israeli occupation’s aggression
With the beginning of the 24th day of the war on Gaza, Israel continued to bomb residential neighborhoods, resulting in martyrs and wounded in several areas, in parallel with its forces’ attempt to penetrate deep into the Gaza Strip.
The Ministry of Health announced that the death toll from the ongoing Israeli occupation forces aggression against the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, since October 7, has risen to 8,382 martyrs and more than 23,000 wounded.
The Ministry said in its daily report issued today, Sunday, that 8,260 martyrs died in the Gaza Strip, and 122 martyrs in the West Bank, while more than 21,000 citizens were wounded in the Strip, and about 2,050 in the West Bank.
The Ministry stated in its report that 73% of the martyrs in the Gaza Strip were children, women and the elderly.
The Ministry said that the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Refugees (UNRWA), which is the largest provider of humanitarian aid in Gaza, has almost exhausted its fuel reserves and has begun to reduce its operations significantly, indicating that 117 trucks are the total number of trucks that have entered through the Rafah crossing since the 21st of this month, as they are working The World Health Organization is coordinating with the Palestinian Red Crescent Society to facilitate the delivery of supplies to hospitals.
The Ministry added that 34% of Gaza's hospitals are not working, and 65% of primary health care centers are closed, while more than 37,000 people among the displaced suffer from non-communicable diseases, including 4,600 pregnant women, and 380 postpartum cases requiring medical care among the displaced, and 15 % of the displaced suffer from various disabilities, and most shelter centers are not equipped and lack mattresses and medical beds.
Regarding the attack on health personnel, 124 health personnel were martyred, more than 100 were injured, and 50 ambulances were damaged, including 25 that were completely out of service.
Also, 12 of the 35 hospitals that became out of service were closed, namely the International Eye Hospital, Dar Al Salam Hospital, Al-Yaman Al-Saeed Hospital, Psychiatric Hospital, Beit Hanoun Hospital, Al-Durrah Children’s Hospital, Hamad Rehabilitation Hospital, Al-Karama Hospital, Al-Wafa Hospital for Medical Rehabilitation and Surgery. Specialization.
46 out of 72 health care centers stopped working as a result of the bombing and the depletion of fuel. It also indicated that the occupation demanded the evacuation of 24 hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip (the total capacity of these hospitals is 2,000 beds).
The Ministry pointed to the severe shortage of medicines, equipment, and personnel needed to treat large numbers of wounded, in addition to the sharp decrease in fuel needed to operate electricity, as surgical operations are performed without anesthesia and by the light of telephones.
The Ministry of Health estimated the number of displaced people in the Gaza Strip at about one million four hundred thousand citizens, with 629,000 people living in 150 emergency shelters designated for UNRWA. Overcrowding is a growing source of concern, and the average number of internally displaced persons per shelter reached 2.7 times its capacity, with the most crowded shelter reaching 2.7 times its capacity. 11 times its carrying capacity.
The report indicated that 45% of the housing units in the Gaza Strip were destroyed as a result of the violent bombardment launched by the occupation army by air, land and sea since the start of the aggression on the seventh of this month.
The number of completely destroyed and uninhabitable housing units reached 33,960 units, 150,000 units were partially destroyed, 12 health facilities were destroyed or out of service after their destruction, and 46 health care centers, in addition to 221 educational institutions, including 29 UNRWA schools.
The Ministry of Health stressed that the shelter centers are overloaded by 250%, which poses a risk of disease outbreaks, noting that many victims are still missing under the rubble.
She pointed out that the World Health Organization documented 118 attacks on health care in the West Bank, affecting 99 ambulances, including 67 obstructions to the provision of health care, 61 physical violence attacks against health teams, and 19 cases of detention of health employees and ambulances, and the health sector also witnessed 12 Military inspection case.
Dozens of citizens were martyred, and others were injured, since dawn on Monday, in bombing by Israeli occupation aircraft in various parts of the Gaza Strip.
Local sources said that the Israeli occupation aircraft targeted the house of the "Fatayer" family in Al-Zawaida in the central Gaza Strip, leading to the death of 11 citizens, the majority of whom were women and children.
The occupation aircraft targeted a house belonging to the “Nawfal” family next to Abu Qamar station in Jabalia camp, northern Gaza Strip, resulting in the death of 3 citizens, in addition to a number of injured people.
Three citizens were martyred in a vehicle bombing, south of Gaza City.
The intense artillery shelling intensified in the vicinity of Sheikh Zayed City and Qalibu, north of Gaza, without any martyrs or wounded being reported.
Occupation aircraft also launched intense raids on the Tal al-Hawa neighborhood in western Gaza, which is subjected daily to continuous bombing of residential buildings and shops.
Medical sources at the Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahia, north of Gaza, announced the arrival of dozens of martyrs and wounded, as a result of the continuous bombing of the Bureij and Nuseirat camps, and the Zawaida area.
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24th day war on Gaza: 8,382 killed and 23,000+ wounded in the Israeli occupation’s aggression