At least 40,223 Palestinians killed in Gaza since Oct.7
At least 40,223 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, the Gaza’s health ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.
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News Center- Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip have entered their 320th day. At least 40,223 Palestinian have been killed and 92,981 others injured in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip since October 7,2023, the Gaza’s health ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.
At least 50 Palestinians were killed and 124 others injured in the last 24 hours, the ministry added, stressing that there are many bodies under rubble and the civil defense crews cannot reach them due to ongoing Israeli attacks.
Another Palestinian journalist killed
Palestinian journalist Hamza Abdul Rahman Murtaja was killed in an Israeli airstrike on a school in Gaza City, the Government Media Office in Gaza reported on Tuesday.
Hamza Abdul Rahman Murtaja, a photographer and journalist working for several media outlets, was killed alongside at least ten people after an Israeli airstrike targeted the Mustafa Hafez School in Gaza City, where displaced people were seeking shelter, the media office said. “The martyrdom of journalist Hamza Abdul Rahman Murtaja brings the number of journalists who have been martyred to 170 journalists since the beginning of the Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.”
Latest evacuation orders by Israel
The Israeli army has issued evacuation orders since October 13, 2023. On Saturday, the Israeli army ordered civilians to evacuate Al-Mawasi, previously designated a “safe zone” by the Israeli military. The Israeli army has issued a new evacuation order for several neighborhoods in Deir el-Balah, a densely populated city in central Gaza.
Avichay Adraee, the Israel Defense Forces’ Arabic-language spokesperson, announced on X that certain areas in the southern part of the city are a “dangerous combat zone”, urging citizens to move westward immediately.
According to UN data, 9 out of 10 people living in Gaza have been forced to flee due to Israeli attacks.