The death toll due to Israel's aggression against the Gaza Strip, which began on October 7, has risen to over 21,800, the Ministry of Health of the Gaza Strip announced this Sunday.
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Gaza health authorities reported 21,822 dead and 56,451 injured via their Facebook account, even though 86 days have passed since Israel's “treacherous aggression” that left 150 people dead in the last 24 hours.
“In the last 24 hours, the Israeli occupation carried out 12 massacres of families in the Gaza Strip, leaving 150 people dead and 286 injured,” the Health Ministry said in a statement.
Gaza saw the last day of 2023 amid the destruction of war, with more than 7,000 people missing under the rubble, which could further increase the death toll.
In addition, in recent hours, Israeli forces have launched a new series of attacks on the Nuseirat and Al Maghazi refugee camps, as well as around Zawaida in the center of the Gaza Strip and Rafah in the south.
During the night and early morning, Israeli bombings fell on the Al Muhajirin and Al Sahaba mosques, in the Al Maghazi refugee camp and the Al Furqan mosque in the city of Deir al Balah, all in central Gaza, Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.
“Dozens of innocent civilians, mostly children and women, were killed and others injured in incessant Israeli shelling and artillery attacks across the Gaza Strip in the early hours of today,” he added.
The conflict erupted on October 7 when Hamas began its Al-Aqsa flooding operation, which included the firing of rockets and the simultaneous infiltration of about 3,000 militiamen, leaving about 1,200 people dead and another 250 in towns near Gaza were taken hostage.
The Israeli siege has also resulted in the displacement of 1.9 million people in the Gaza Strip, 85 percent of the Gaza Strip's population. They are living in the midst of an unprecedented humanitarian crisis due to hospital collapses, epidemic outbreaks and water shortages. Drinking water, food, medicine, electricity and fuel.