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Gaza martyr toll exceeds 50k as IOF besiege ambulance crews in Rafah

  • By Al Mayadeen English
  • Source: Al Mayadeen English
  • 23 Mar 2025 15:47
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The Gaza Ministry of Health reports 50,021 martyrs, while over 50,000 people are besieged by occupation forces in Rafah, facing imminent danger.

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    Mourners carry the body of a Palestinian child who was killed by an Israeli army airstrike, at the Baptist Hospital in Gaza City, on March 21, 2025. (AP)

The death toll from the Israeli occupation's ongoing war of extermination against Gaza has surpassed 50,000, with the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip reporting 50,021 martyrs and 113,274 wounded since October 7, 2023. 

Since the resumption of Israeli aggression on March 18, 673 people have been killed and 1,233 others wounded. In the last 24 hours, 41 martyrs and 61 injured individuals arrived at Gaza's hospitals, while 233 more were added to the overall death toll after their status was confirmed by the judicial committee overseeing missing persons and related reports.

Numerous victims remain trapped under rubble or on the streets, with ambulance and civil defense teams unable to access them due to the extensive debris and ongoing Israeli bombardment.

Displacement from Tel al-Sultan, ambulance crews trapped in barracks

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Meanwhile, thousands of residents from the Tel al-Sultan neighborhood, located west of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, fled toward the al-Mawasi area. Eyewitnesses reported seeing martyrs' bodies lying along the escape route, as Israeli occupation forces fired upon them. No one could reach the victims to evacuate them due to the heavy presence of the Israeli army.

In addition, the Israeli occupation forces besieged hundreds of residents in the Saudi neighborhood of Tel al-Sultan, declaring it a "dangerous combat zone" and ordering its evacuation. The occupation army renewed artillery fire in the area and also surrounded an ambulance crew and four Red Crescent ambulances in the al-Baraksat area, west of Rafah.

The Red Crescent confirmed that contact with the trapped ambulance crew has been lost, and the organization is still awaiting permission to reach them. 

Similarly, Gaza's Civil Defense announced it had lost communication with its own crew in the area, who were attempting to rescue the Red Crescent ambulance team that was targeted by the Israeli occupation forces.

The Civil Defense in the Gaza Strip issued a warning about the risks faced by its besieged crews and the imminent danger threatening the lives of over 50,000 people trapped in the barracks by the occupation forces. 

In separate incidents, two people were killed by Israeli drone fire in the al-Zahour neighborhood, north of Rafah. Additionally, at least three people were killed and several others injured when the Israeli occupation forces targeted a vehicle belonging to the Abasan al-Kabira municipality, east of Khan Yunis, in southern Gaza.

In the northern Gaza Strip, the occupation forces continued their artillery shelling of Beit Hanoun and the Abu Safiya area, east of Jabalia camp, with military vehicles intensifying fire towards the region.

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