Day 207 of Israeli aggression: 34,535 killed, 77,704 injured in Gaza
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The situation in Gaza remains dire as the Israeli military aggression persists into the 207th day. In the past 24 hours alone, five massacres have resulted in the loss of 47 lives and left 61 others injured.
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Mourners carry the bodies of members of the Abu Taha family who were killed in an Israeli airstrike, during their funeral at Al-Salam cemetery, Rafah, Gaza Strip, Palestine, April 29, 2024. (AP)
Over the past 24 hours, the Gaza Strip Ministry of Health records five massacres committed by the IOF targeting families in Gaza, resulting in 47 martyrs and the hospitalization of 61 injured individuals.
Tragically, there are still victims trapped under rubble and in inaccessible areas where ambulance and civil defense crews are either unable to or barred from reaching.
The overall toll of the Israeli aggression has now reached a staggering 34,535 martyrs and 77,704 injuries since the launch of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood.
In light of this devastating situation, families of martyrs and individuals martyred or missing due to the war in Gaza are urged to ensure that their information is complete by registering through the Ministry as it will help in fulfilling all necessary data requirements.
10,000 missing under rubble in Gaza Strip: Gaza Civil Defense
The General Directorate of Civil Defense estimated that there are more than ten thousand missing people who are still under the rubble of hundreds of destroyed buildings in the Gaza Strip since the start of the aggression on the Strip.
"We estimate that there are over 10,000 missing people under the rubble of hundreds of destroyed homes since the start of the (Israeli) aggression," a statement by the Civil Defense said on Tuesday.
Competent crews have not been able to recover their bodies, it stressed, highlighting the dire situation.
In its statement, the Directorate stressed that these missing people are not included in the statistics of martyrs issued by the Ministry of Health because the bodies were not recorded in hospitals, therefore the number of martyrs exceeds more than 44,000.
It stressed that the crews continue to carry out their humanitarian duty toward the Palestinian people amid the genocide in the Gaza Strip for more than 200 days, despite the huge difficulties they are facing in terms of the lack of equipment, vehicles, and mechanisms necessary to look for the missing under the rubble.
It pointed out that thousands of citizens lost their lives because teams were unable to reach and rescue them from under the piles of rubble.
It added that it received many appeals from parents and volunteer youth teams to support individual efforts and initiatives in attempts to extract the bodies of martyrs to honor the martyrs by burying them instead of keeping their bodies under the rubble.
"We had no choice but to respond to these initiatives out of a sense of national and humanitarian responsibility, and to stand by our people and support them," it stressed.
However, it maintained that with the lack of heavy equipment such as boats and excavators, these efforts will remain insufficient and barely meet the minimum needs required to recover the bodies of thousands of martyrs.
Moreover, the implementation of this primitive mechanism will take two to three years, the Civil Defense confirmed in its statement, especially since UN officials estimated that the occupation bombardment left at least 37 million tons of rubble across the Strip.
IOF kill Palestinian heading to work by throwing him off a roof
The Israeli aggression in the West Bank is also ongoing and is described as the most violent ever. In a new heinous Israeli crime, occupation forces killed a Palestinian man by throwing him off a roof in the town of al-Dhahiriya, south of al-Khalil in the occupied West Bank.
Rebhi Mansiya's father said his son was heading to work early this morning before being detained by the IOF in Batn al-Aqra' neighborhood.
Mansiya was among other workers in a vehicle on their way to their jobs when an Israeli force pursued them and blocked their path.
According to the father, occupation soldiers chased his son into a building, where they detained him after brutally assaulting him. They then dragged him to the roof before pushing him off the building, leading to his martyrdom.
The Israeli aggression against the West Bank has skyrocketed since the launch of the war on Gaza last October.
Palestinian towns and cities are subjected to daily raids, alongside extensive arrest campaigns, resulting in an increase in the number of martyrs and injuries from Resistance confrontations with the occupation forces.
A joint report issued by the Palestinian Prisoners Affairs Authority and the Palestinian Prisoners Club earlier this week revealed an alarming increase in the number of arrests since October 7, reaching 8480.
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