Increase the Number of Victims of Zionist Sieges in Gaza to 39,929

Increase the Number of Victims of Zionist Sieges in Gaza to 39,929

Thousands of victims remain trapped under the rubble, inaccessible to emergency and civil defence teams due to Israeli attacks.

Israeli occupation forces committed two massacres against families in the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours, causing at least 32 Palestinians to die and 88 others to be injured, according to local medical sources.

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Local health authorities confirmed that the number of Palestinian deaths from the Israeli escalation since 7 October has increased to 39,929 reported fatalities, and 92,240 more people have been injured.

Of these, the majority of victims are women and children. According to the same sources, emergency services are still unable to reach many victims and bodies trapped under rubble or scattered on the roads throughout the war-ravaged enclave, as the Israeli occupation forces continue to obstruct the movement of ambulance and civil defence teams.

The daily update comes as seven civilians are reported to have been killed in an Israeli airstrike on a house at al-Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip on Tuesday.

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Also, this morning at least four civilians were killed, including two children, in a bombardment by the occupying forces against Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.

On the other hand, local organizations have stated that the occupying forces bombed the Qastal towers east of the city of Deir al-Balah, killing four civilians and wounding others.

In other incidents, medical and local sources reported that one citizen was killed and others were injured when the Israeli air force bombarded the home of the Darwish family at Maghazi camp in the central Gaza Strip. A father and his son were also killed, and others wounded when the occupation aircraft bombed the Al-Sayed family home in «Block 9» inside the Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip.

Occupation aircraft bombed the home of the Abu Alwan family in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood of Gaza City, killing and wounding a number of citizens. Two civilians were killed and others wounded in an attack by the occupation aircraft on the town of Al-Qarara, north-east of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.