News Center- Israel has waged a war on the Gaza Strip for 117 days, killing and injuring tens of thousands of civilians and displacing more than 1.5 million people.

At least 26,751 Palestinians have been killed and 65,636 injured in Israel’s attacks on Gaza since October 7, 2023, the Gaza’s health ministry said in a statement on Tuesday. In the past 24 hours, 114 Palestinians were killed and 249 injured by the Israeli army, the statement said. A number of victims are still under the rubble, and ambulances and the civil defense crew cannot reach them, the ministry said in the statement.

Five Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Khan Younis

On Wednesday, five Palestinians were killed and others were injured by Israeli occupation forces in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, reported Palestinian news agency WAFA. The Palestinian Red Crescent reported that its security employee at the Al-Amal Hospital in Khan Yunis was killed after Israeli forces shot him while he was standing near the back door.

Israeli forces also targeted a house in the Al-Daraj neighborhood, east of Gaza City and injured many civilians. Dozens of civilians were killed and others wounded in an Israeli airstrike on Wednesday that targeted three houses in the Al-Rimal neighborhood of Gaza, the WAFA reported.

Displaced people suffer from catastrophic conditions

In recent days, rain and cold weather have exacerbated the suffering of the displaced people living in tents in Rafah, a city in the southern Gaza Strip. They have suffered from the lack of heating means and poor shelter conditions especially since rainwater flooded their tents.