The Palestinian Health Ministry reported on Sunday the deaths of 9,770 Palestinians, including 4,800 children, since the occupation army began bombing the Gaza Strip on October 7.
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Meanwhile, in the other area occupied by Zionist forces, the West Bank, authorities reported 152 dead and 2,100 wounded.
Health spokesman Ashraf al Qudra said in a press conference that the 9,770 deaths included 2,550 women, 596 elderly people and 175 health professionals.
How is it possible that an almost total siege is imposed? #RIBBON for two weeks and then raised slightly so that an auxiliary thread is enough and no fuel gets in?
The people of Gaza feel abandoned.
Humanity is sinking into darkness. pic.twitter.com/1vkqaxm52Q— UNRWA.es (@UNRWAes)
November 5, 2023
Al Qudra further warned that the ministry had received 2,260 reports of missing people, “including 1,270 children still lying under the rubble.”
Of the 35 hospitals in the Gaza Strip, 16 are currently out of service due to Israeli bombing and depleted fuel reserves.
Because of fuel shortages, doctors have no choice but to perform surgeries without adequate anesthesia, including on those injured in air raids and on women undergoing cesarean sections.
The Israeli military has increased its air and ground strikes against the Gaza Strip, which has been subjected to incessant airstrikes since a cross-border attack by the Palestinian group Hamas on October 7.
Israel says it has attacked 2,500 targets in the Gaza Strip.
Israel claims to have attacked 2,500 targets in Gaza
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reported that it has struck more than 2,500 targets from the air, land and sea since the ground offensive in Gaza began a week ago.
“During joint activities of ground, air and naval forces in the Gaza Strip, more than 2,500 terrorist targets were attacked,” the statement said.
The troops fought “day and night” against Hamas members in the northern Gaza Strip, the report added.
The Israeli minister believes a nuclear attack on Gaza is possible
Israeli Minister of Jerusalem Affairs and Heritage Amihai Eliyahu stated that a nuclear attack on the Gaza Strip was “one of the possibilities” for the development of the conflict, The Times of Israel newspaper reported.
A little later, however, the officer noted that his “statement was metaphorical.”
“In response to a question from broadcaster Kol Berama about whether a nuclear bomb should be dropped on the enclave, Culture Minister Amihai Eliyahu replied: ‘This is one of the possibilities,'” the source reports.