Gaza Strip: more than 130 Palestinians killed in 24 hours | The death toll rose to more than 23,800

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2024-01-14 05:01:00

At least 135 people died and 312 were injured in the last 24 hours from the Israeli bombings on the Gaza Strip, the Gaza Ministry of Health reported this Saturday in a statement, on the eve of the 100th day since the explosion. the war between Israel and the Islamist movement Hamas.

At least 20 Palestinians, including women and children, died in an attack on a residential building in the Daraj neighborhood of Gaza City, adding to three others killed in another Israeli attack in Beit Lahia, in the north of the enclave. There were also ten other Palestinian civilians, including several children, killed in an attack carried out by the Israeli Army on Rafah, in the south, in addition to other attacks in the vicinity of the Al Aqsa hospital.

Sources from the official Palestinian news agency WAFA stated that there were additional attacks southeast of the city of Khan Yunis, in the south of the Strip, as well as in Nuseirat, where dozens of people were killed, as well as in the fields of Nuseirat and Maghazi. . In this way, the offensive by Israeli troops has so far left more than 23,800 dead, 60,317 injured and thousands of people trapped in the rubble, according to the latest balance sheet released by the Gaza health ministry.

In the midst of this situation, the telephone and internet network was once again out of service, which the Palestinian Red Crescent indicated in a statement is hampering its efforts to help the injured. This is the seventh time that telecommunications have been interrupted in the Strip since the war began on October 7 after the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel that killed 1,200 people, the vast majority civilians, and took some 240 hostage. , among them twenty with Argentine nationality.

Commemoration for the 100 days

Regarding Israel, relatives of hostages and missing people due to the Hamas incursion announced that they will hold a rally this Sunday in Tel Aviv to commemorate the 100 days of the kidnappings and demand the release of the 130 people who remain captive. The event will open with a video recorded message from French President Emmanuel Macron, according to the Times of Israel newspaper.

For his part, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu assured that no one will stop the offensive against Hamas. “No one will stop us, not The Hague, not the axis of evil, not anyone else,” declared the head of government, referring to the lawsuit filed by South Africa against Israel before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), based in La Haya, for genocide in Gaza. “We are on the path to victory and we will not stop until we achieve it,” he emphasized.

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