Gaza City, (Al Jazeera, Wafa): At least 127 Palestinians have been killed and 205 others injured in Israeli indiscriminate strikes on Gaza in the past 24 hours, according to Gaza Ministry of Health. Israeli bombardment has killed at least 28,985 Palestinians, including 12,000 children and wounded 68,883 since October 7. 8,500 Palestinians missing.
Nasser Hospital has been put “completely out of service”, according to a spokesperson for the Gaza Health Ministry. The WHO chief said that some 200 patients were inside Gaza’s second-largest medical facility, which has been under an Israeli siege for nearly a month.
Today, there were more distressing images of people in the north waiting for humanitarian trucks to be allowed in while coming under fire from Israeli forces, forcing them to run and take cover from Israeli snipers.
And this has absolutely been repeated within the past few days as these people are in clear, desperate need [of] food.
The absence of humanitarian trucks … has forced people to find alternatives to food, including animal feed, while suffering from widespread diseases.
On the ground, Israel is intensifying its bombardment of Gaza and imposing more restrictions on aid delivery to the most affected parts of the Gaza Strip.
Dozens of Palestinian civilians were killed and injured today after the Israeli occupation warplanes targeted citizens’ homes in Deir al-Balah and al-Zawaida in the central Gaza Strip, and Khan Yunis in the south.
Local sources said that the Israeli warplanes bombed the home of Al-Baraka family in the Al-Brook area in the city of Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, leading to the killing of seven Palestinians, including three children.
Five Palestinians were killed and others were injured after the Israeli forces targeted a group of Palestinians near the Kuwait Roundabout, south of Gaza City.
Medical sources reported that 17 slain Palestinian civilians were retrieved from under the rubble of Hamad family’s home, which was bombed by Israeli air force at dawn today in the town of Al-Zawaida.
In the northern Gaza Strip, a number of Palestinians were injured after the Israeli forces targeted Al-Dhabous family home near the Beit Lahia cemetery.
In the south, the Israeli warplanes launched raids west of the city of Khan Yunis, where two people were killed and others injured, after the vicinity of a school housing displaced people in the town of Al-Qarara, northeast of Khan Yunis, was targeted.
Medical sources pointed out that an eighth patient was killed in Nasser Medical Complex as a result of the electrical generator stopping and the oxygen being stopped.
Meanwhile, Israeli forces killed three Palestinians in the occupied West Bank – two in a Tulkarem raid and one at a checkpoint east of Nablus.
Total Palestinians killed in the West Bank by Israeli Defence Forces and settlers since 7 October 396. According to Prisoners Society, 7,060 Palestinians have been detained by Israeli forces since 7 October.
According to Israeli government 1,139 Israelis were killed by Hamas on 7 October in southern Israel and 134 Israelis and foreign nationals are still detained by Hamas in Gaza.
[Photo: Relatives mourn for their loved ones killed in Israeli attacks after their bodies brought to Al Aqsa Hospital in Deir al Balah, in the Central Gaza on 18 2 24. Photojournalist: Ashraf Amra/ AA]
