Gaza City, (Wafa, OCHA, AlJazeera): Between the afternoon of 13 February and 12:00 on 14 February, according to the Ministry of Health (MoH) in Gaza, 103 Palestinians were killed, and 145 Palestinians were injured. Between 7 October 2023 and 12:00 on 14 February 2024, at least 28,576 incl 12,300 Palestinian children were killed in Gaza and 68,291 Palestinians were injured, according to MoH in Gaza. 8,500 Palestinians are still missing.

Airstrikes on Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah and statements by Israeli officials have heightened concerns about a possible ground invasion in Rafah where well over one million people are crammed amid insecurity and acute shortages of shelter, food, clean water, and medical care, reports  United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

On 13 February, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Martin Griffiths, warned that a military operation in Rafah “could lead to a slaughter in Gaza” and “leave an already fragile humanitarian operation at death’s door,” noting that the “Government of Israel cannot continue to ignore these calls” by the international community.

Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis continues to be besieged by Israeli tanks and there are continued allegations of sniper shooting toward the hospital and its vicinity, endangering the lives of 300 medical personnel, 450 wounded, and some 10,000 displaced people who are reportedly sheltering in the hospital’s compound.

On 13 and 14 February, the Israeli military called for the evacuation of civilians seeking shelter at Nasser Hospital, claiming that military activities are being carried out from within the hospital’s compound. According to MoH in Gaza, three people were killed, and 10 others injured, inside Nasser medical complex by Israeli sniper fire in the afternoon of 13 February

Israeli forces killed Ayman Rafati, his wife and children after shelling his home north of Gaza City, says Ramy Abdu, head of the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor.

Abdu has accused Israel of silencing voices from Gaza, while others have called it part of an ongoing scholasticide, a term that has become popular to refer to Israel’s destruction of Gaza’s education system.

The Israeli army has previously killed poets, professors and academics, and approximately 100 journalists.

At least four civilians were killed today in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a house west of the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

Medical sources said that Israeli fighter jets bombed a house for the Nuwaija family, which resulted in the killing of four people. They were rushed to Al-Aqsa Hospital in nearby Deir al-Balah, reports Wafa news agency.

According to the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS), Israeli airstrikes and artillery shelling were reported in the vicinity of Al-Amal Hospital, in the city of Khan Yunis, which left massive destruction in several nearby buildings.

At least nine civilians today were killed and others were wounded in Israeli airstrikes that targeted different parts of Gaza City, according to local and medical sources.

Medical sources said that at least nine civilians, mostly are children and women, were killed in Israeli airstrikes that targeted homes in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City, and Tal Al-Hawa in the southwest of the city.

The wounded individuals from the ongoing shelling were rushed to the Baptist Hospital in the city for medical treatment.

A number of Palestinian citizens, including children and women, were killed and injured on Wednesday in raids launched by Israeli aircraft and artillery shelling that targeted various areas of the Gaza Strip, which has been subjected to an ongoing brutal aggression for the 131st day in a row.

Health sources said that several citizens, including children and women, were killed and injured as a result of an Israeli bombing of a site east of Deir al-Balah, adding that Israeli drones targeted a house in Nuseirat in the middle of the Gaza Strip.

Al-Qarara area, northeast of Khan Yunis, in the south of the Gaza Strip, came under fire from Israeli helicopters, coinciding with heavy gunfire east of Al-Maghazi.

The Ministry of Health said earlier yesterday evening that three citizens were killed and 10 others were injured inside the Nasser Medical Complex by Israeli sniper bullets.

Six citizens, including children and women, were killed on Tuesday evening, in a raid launched by the Israeli occupation aircraft on a civilian vehicle on Al-Jalaa Street, north of Gaza City.

A citizen was killed and another injured, in a bombing by Israeli drones that targeted the vicinity of Ali bin Abi Talib Mosque in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza City.

Between the afternoons of 13 and 14 February, there were no Israeli soldiers reported killed in Gaza.

As of 14 February, 230 soldiers have been killed and 1,352 soldiers injured in Gaza since the beginning of the ground operation, according to the Israeli military.oo

In addition, over 1,139 Israelis and foreign nationals have been killed in Israel, according to the Israeli authorities, the vast majority on 7 October in southern Israel. As of 14 February, the Israeli authorities estimate that about 134 Israelis and foreign nationals remain captive by Hamas in Gaza.

[Photo: Ali Tafesh, 14, lost his limbs from Israeli bombardment being treated at 141-year-old Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza City 13 2 24. Photojournalist: Omar Qattaa /AA]