News Center- At least 21,110 people, including 8,800 children and 6,300 women, have been killed and 55,243 injured in the Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7, said the Gaza health ministry.

The official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported Israeli bombardment on Deir al-Balah and Al-Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, killing and injuring dozens. “The occupation (Israel) targeted a civilian car transporting wounded people from Deir al-Balah, which led to the killing of everyone in it,” Wafa said.

The news agency also said that at least seven civilians were killed in an Israeli raid on a house in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip. Israeli strikes killed and injured dozens of citizens, most of them children and women, in the city of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, according to the Wafa.

The Gaza health ministry also said that 7,000 people are missing, Many are believed to be trapped under destroyed buildings. Since October 7, at least 311 medical workers, 40 Civil Defense members and 103 journalists have been killed in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza, the Gaza Health Ministry said. Since Israel began its bombardment on Gaza on October 7, up to 1.8 million-around 80 percent of the population-have been forced to leave their homes.

355,000 cases of skin and infectious diseases detected in Gaza

Health teams have detected 355,000 cases of skin and infectious diseases in Gaza, the Gaza health ministry said on Tuesday. The ministry called on international institutions to work towards providing sufficient water, food, and proper healthcare in shelter centers, especially those needed for over 700,000 children, 50,000 pregnant women, and 350 chronic patients, including 1,100 kidney dialysis patients and thousands of wounded.

‘Hospitals are barely functioning’

“Hospitals are barely functioning. Infectious diseases are rife and spreading fast in overcrowded shelters. Hundreds of people with war injuries are unable to receive care,” wrote Martin Griffiths, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator (ERC), on his social media account. “Gaza is a public health disaster in the making.”