The number of victims in the Gaza Strip rose to 20,258 dead and 53,688 injured since the war broke out on October 7 between the Islamist group Hamas and IsraelThe health authorities of the Palestinian enclave reported this Saturday.
He Strip Ministry of Healthcontrolled by Hamas, updated the figures after registering 201 dead and 368 wounded during the last 24 hours due to attacks by the Israeli Army, which has maintained an offensive by air, land and sea on the Palestinian enclave since the war began on October 7, after an attack by the Islamist group that It left some 1,200 dead and 250 kidnapped.
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The Israeli Army carried out a series of airstrikes this Saturday on the refugee camp of Al Bureijlocated in the center of the Gaza Stripand in the refugee camp of Jabaliain the north, the official Palestinian news agency reported, Wafa.
Among the dead Al Bureij a girl is found, while in Jabalia dozens of civilians died due to the attack on a home, and ambulances struggled to access the injured due to the continuous bombings and shotshe added.
The militiamen of Hamas “have been waging fierce armed clashes since yesterday with enemy forces that penetrated the Jabalia area, using anti-tank rocket launchers, anti-personnel bombs, thereby killing and wounding a large number of Zionist soldiers“, indicated the Islamist group in a statement.
Israel reported this Saturday that it launched a series of attacks against Hamas in its objective of achieving total control of the north of Loop.
On the other hand, the eastern regions of Deir al Balahin central Gaza, as well as the refugee camp of Nuseiratsuffered artillery attacks that caused the death and injury of dozens of civilians, while in Jan Yunisa bastion of Hamas In the south of the Palestinian enclave, there were airstrikes while tanks continue to lay siege to the city, preventing ambulances from reaching the wounded and making it difficult to recover the bodies, Wafa said.
The war has left 1.9 million displaced people in the Strip -almost the entire population- who are experiencing an unprecedented humanitarian crisis due to the shortage of drinking water, food, medicine, electricity and fuel, in addition to hospital collapse and the outbreak of epidemics in the middle of winter.
