A man carries an injured child after Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, October 2023. Photo: The Observer Post.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced on Thursday that the death toll in the Gaza Strip due to attacks by the Israeli army was 1,537; while the number of injured rises to 7,212.
According to the organization, records from the sixth day of the escalation of the conflict indicate that 500 of the deceased were children and 276 were women.
That day, Israeli occupation forces continued to attack houses near the western entrance to the town of Kafr al-Dik, west of Salfit, with gas bombs.
Likewise, it emerged that a bomb attack killed 45 members of a Palestinian family, consisting mostly of women and children under 18, including a one-year-old baby, by demolishing a building in the Jabaliya refugee camp, north of the Gaza Strip.
On the other hand, six civilians were killed by an Israeli airstrike in the Tal Al-Hawa neighborhood in the western Gaza Strip, while another five members of the Al-Masri family were killed in the center of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. Ribbon.
In Abu Hague, north of the Gaza Strip, more than ten family members were also killed by bombing raids by Israeli warplanes.
According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the number of displaced people from Gaza has risen to 338,934.
In a statement, the company said 220,000 of those people had found refuge with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in the Gaza Strip, while about 15,000 were housed in Palestinian Authority facilities.
OCHA said the rest of the refugees went to relatives, churches or other institutions.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Public Works and Housing said at least 2,540 houses were destroyed and 22,850 were partially damaged; including health facilities that were targeted by airstrikes.
The United Nations (UN) has expressed concern about the situation of health facilities and the destruction of cities.
“Facilities and all hospitals and schools should never be attacked,” said UN Secretary-General António Guterres on the social network X.
Guterres also called for “important life-saving supplies such as fuel, food and water to be allowed into the Gaza Strip. We now need rapid and unhindered access for humanitarian assistance.”
On the other hand, Israeli media reported that in a survey, more than 90 percent of respondents confirmed that the Israeli cabinet was responsible for the “lack of preparation” in security matters.
The Dialogue Center’s survey found that 94 percent of respondents believe Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet is responsible for the Palestinian resistance offensive.
Furthermore, 86 percent say what happened is a failure of the Cabinet, while 56 percent believe the Prime Minister should resign.
(With information from Telesur)