Around 13,000 Palestinians, most of them children and women, have died as a result of Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip since October 7, according to a report prepared this Sunday by the government of the Islamist movement Hamas.
Among the fatalities recorded to date are at least 5,500 children and 3,500 women, according to Hamas, cited by Agence France-Presse.
Hamas also reports that at least 30,000 people have been injured since October 7.
The EFE agency, for its part, cites the Hamas communications office to affirm that more than six thousand people are missing under the rubble or among corpses lying in the streets without anyone being able to pick them up.
“The number of missing people exceeds six thousand, either under the ruins or with their bodies lying on the streets and roads,” but “the occupation (Israel) prevents anyone from reaching them, including more than four children and women “added the same agency.
Most of these people are presumed dead, but emergency or rescue teams cannot reach them as the 44-day Israeli offensive on the enclave continues, causing a humanitarian crisis with a siege that leaves about 2, 4 million Palestinians almost without food. , water, medicine or fuel.
Among the 13,000 confirmed deaths are more than 5,500 children and 3,500 women, with more than two hundred doctors, nurses and paramedics dead, as well as 22 civilian first responders.
There are more than 30,000 wounded, 75% of whom are children and women, in a scenario of increasing devastation, while Israeli troops advance their ground operation in Gaza, where they have already taken control of the north and an important part of an area from Gaza. Gaza City.
Media professionals are among the victims, to the point that the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), a nonprofit organization that fights for free journalism around the world, considers the month November “the deadliest for journalists since data collection began in 1992.”
To date, according to CPJ, 42 journalists have been killed in the war between Israel and Hamas, including journalists and other media workers.
This figure includes the five journalists and two local media professionals killed by Israeli bombings between Saturday and today.
According to CPJ, among the 42 journalists whose deaths this organization was able to confirm, there are 37 Palestinians, four Israelis and one Lebanese.
Since the start of the war on October 7, Israeli bombing has completely destroyed some 43,000 homes, while another 225,000 homes “have been subject to partial demolitions,” the government office said.
“This means that around 60% of the homes in Gaza” were exposed to “total, partial or uninhabitable destruction,” the same source highlighted.
Added to this is the scarcity of resources and the lack of electricity in most of the hospitals in the Strip, without gasoline to function and many of them damaged by the recent attacks and sieges imposed by Israeli troops.
Even today it has been reported that all hospitals in Gaza City are out of service and only two small clinics in the city remain operational, while thousands of people and patients who were in Al Shifa hospital, the largest from the Strip, were forced to leave on Saturday by order of the Israeli army, which claims that Hamas’ clandestine military network is beneath the hospital.
The Islamist movement Hamas launched, on October 7, a surprise attack against Israel, with thousands of rockets and armed men, leaving more than 1,200 dead and 240 hostages.
In response, Israel declared war on Hamas, which has controlled the Gaza Strip since 2007 and is classified as terrorist by the EU and the United States, bombed several of the group’s infrastructure in Gaza and imposed a total siege on the territory, cutting off water. . supplies, fuel and electricity.
The UN said more than two-thirds of the Gaza Strip’s 2.4 million people were displaced by the war, with most fleeing south.
Source: TSF
