Martyr's toll rises to 21,507: Gaza Health Ministry

By Al Mayadeen English
Source: Agencies
29 Dec 2023 17:48
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Over the past 24 hours, the ministry stated in a release that an additional 187 individuals lost their lives, while 312 others sustained injuries.

A Palestinian man carries the body of his relative killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, outside a morgue in Rafah, southern Gaza, Friday, Dec. 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

Gaza's health ministry reported on Friday that the number of Palestinians who have lost their lives due to the ongoing genocide led by the Israeli army since October 7 has reached 21,507, with 55,915 individuals sustaining injuries.

Over the past 24 hours, the ministry stated in a release that an additional 187 individuals lost their lives, while 312 others sustained injuries.

Recent updates reveal that Israeli forces targeted numerous residential buildings and mosques in central and southern Gaza.

The Israeli occupation's indiscriminate air raids killed at least 11 people from one family in Khan Younis, with dozens of others wounded. The eastern part of Khan Younis is witnessing one of the most brutal Israeli bombardment campaigns, with dozens of injuries and deaths recorded in the area.

They also reveal that the southern city of Rafah has also been under heavy Israeli fire, with dozens of casualties recorded in bombings that targeted the al-Shaboura refugee camp where people rushed to seek refuge after no less than 20 civilians were killed in an air raid that targeted a residential home elsewhere in the city.

In central Gaza, Israeli occupation forces carried out a series of airstrikes on the al-Maghazi camp, which killed at least 14 civilians and saw the destruction of a mosque in the camp. Another refugee camp, the Bureij camp, was severely bombed by the Israeli occupation forces, with the al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital saying it received several martyrs and casualties.

The extensive Israeli aggression has resulted in widespread destruction in Gaza, where 60% of the Strip's infrastructure has been damaged or destroyed. Nearly 2 million residents have been displaced, facing severe shortages of essential resources such as food, clean water, and medicines.