AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): According to Gaza’s Health Ministry at least 21,672 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks and more than 56,165 people have been wounded since October 7.
Meanwhile on Saturday evening Gaza’s Health Ministry announced that in the past 24 hours,165 Palestinians have been killed and 250 have been injured.
On Saturday, Khan Younis in southern Gaza was one of the most targeted places for Israeli attacks. In the massive airstrikes near the European Hospital, five people have been killed. Others who were passing by were injured and rushed to the hospital – the vast majority of them women and children.
Many buildings were destroyed in the multiple Israeli airstrikes and artillery attacks in Khan Younis.
Also, Israeli relentless airstrikes killed and injured a dozen civilians in Deir al-Balah.
Israeli artillery shelling targeted a house in the Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza, killing one person and injuring two others, the Palestinian Red Crescent reported.
The Wall Street Journal has reported that the war in Gaza “is generating destruction comparable in scale to the most devastating warfare in the modern record.
In a report published on Saturday, it confirmed that by mid-December Israel had dropped 29,000 bombs, munitions, and shells on the besieged enclave, destroying or damaging nearly 70 percent of Gaza’s homes.
The spread of diseases in Gaza has reportedly increased, especially due to the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people in the southern part of the enclave, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in a report.
About 180,000 people have been diagnosed with upper respiratory infections, with more than 136,000 cases of diarrhea recorded among the population, OCHA noted. At least 55,400 cases of lice and scabies and 5,330 cases of chickenpox have also been recorded.
Today, Gaza’s Ministry of Health in a news conference warned about the the serious risks of famine and drought among the 1.9 million displaced people of Gaza.
According to Gaza’s Health Ministry, 50,000 pregnant women suffer from malnutrition and do not receive proper medical care, also 900,000 children are suffering from cold weather, hunger, and lack of drinking water.
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