Israeli war machine claims lives of 1,500+ Palestinians in Gaza

By Al Mayadeen English
Source: Al Mayadeen
13 Oct 2023 05:22
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Al Mayadeen's correspondent says Israeli occupation forces have been concentrating their deadly airstrikes on residential neighborhoods in Gaza.

A ball of fire erupts in Gaza City after an Israeli occupation air strike on October 12, 2023. (AFP)

The Ministry of Health in Gaza has reported the martyrdom of 1,537 Palestinians and the injury of 6,612 others since the beginning of the brutal Israeli aggression on the besieged Strip.

On Friday, bloodthirsty Israeli occupation warplanes continued to bomb residential neighborhoods in the Gaza Strip, as rescue operations are underway to recover the bodies of a number of martyrs and those wounded in the aggression.

Al Mayadeen's correspondent confirmed that at least 10 people, including a young girl, were martyred after Israeli warplanes targeted the al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

Furthermore, occupation warplanes targeted a house belonging to the Saafin family in al-Zaitoun neighborhood, east of Gaza City, according to our correspondent.

Our correspondent pointed out that Israeli forces have been concentrating their deadly airstrikes on residential neighborhoods in Gaza. Additionally, they have targeted refugee camps in the Strip in recent hours.

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The airstrikes targeted three houses in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, as reported by our correspondent. He noted that the occupation continues to launch airstrikes in the northwestern areas of the region.

Israeli occupation forces have also intensified their attacks in the northeast of Beit Lahia and Beit Hanoun, where they committed a massacre against a family in the city.

Earlier, Ashraf al-Qidra, the spokesperson for the Gaza Ministry of Health, confirmed to Al Mayadeen that "we are just hours away from suspending services in Gaza hospitals." He stressed that the healthcare system in the Strip has reached a state of "severe collapse".

Al-Qidra added that medicines are running out, and only life-saving departments are still operational in hospitals due to the shortage of fuel. In the aftermath of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, Israeli occupation Security Minister Yoav Gallant ordered to cut off electricity, water, and food from the Gaza Strip, further exacerbating the humanitarian crisis of the Palestinian people there.

The spokesperson for the Gaza Ministry of Health pointed out that patients and the wounded in Gaza hospitals are lying on the ground as there are no beds available in intensive care units, while queues are forming outside operation rooms.

More than 423,000 people have now been forcibly displaced in the Gaza Strip, the United Nations said, as heavy Israeli bombardments continue to hit the Strip, razing houses to the ground and committing massacres against the Palestinian people.

As of late Thursday, the number of displaced people in Gaza had risen by an additional 84,444 people and reached 423,378, the UN humanitarian agency OCHA said in a statement sent on Friday.