2024-01-12 16:47:43
At least 239 Palestinians have died since Thursday, announced Friday the Health Ministry of Hamas, in power in the Gaza Strip since 2007. The Israeli army again bombarded the center and south of the Palestinian enclave on Friday, where it claimed to have killed dozens of “terrorists”.
An AFP journalist heard violent artillery fire between Rafah, at the southern tip of the Palestinian territory, and Khan Younes, the large southern city epicenter of the fighting, during the night from Thursday to Friday, marked however by less of strikes. According to the Hamas Ministry of Health, “more than 59 dead and dozens of wounded were taken to hospitals following the attacks carried out” during the night “in several sectors”.
“Dozens of terrorists” were killed in Khan Younes and Maghazi, in the center, “including officers of the Nukhba unit” (“elite” in Arabic), said the Israeli army, which also reported a drone strike in Bureij, in the center. In Khan Younès, “an officer of the Nukhba unit who had participated in the October 7 massacre” was notably killed, according to the army.
At Najjer hospital in Rafah, a young man who does not give his name shows AFPTV bodies in plastic sheeting. “The women are widows, the children orphans. Does anyone care about us? Why is everyone staying silent? », he asks.
The deadliest conflict of the 21st century
American Secretary of State Antony Blinken called on the Jewish state on Tuesday to spare Gazan civilians. But according to a new report made public this Friday, the Hamas Ministry of Health, 23,708 people have killed, mostly women, adolescents and children in the Gaza Strip since October 7, the evening of 239 victims of more than Thursday. There have been 60,005 injured since that date. A figure far from exhaustive because “many people are still under the rubble and rescuers cannot reach them,” according to him.
With an average of 250 deaths per day according to his calculations, the average lethality rate of this war is “significantly higher” than that of “any other recent conflict”, “in Syria (96.5 deaths per day), in Sudan (51.6), Iraq (50.8), Ukraine (43.9), Afghanistan (23.8) and Yemen (15.8),” denounces Oxfam-France
???? Every day, 250 Palestinians are killed by the Israeli army. This mortality rate is higher than in any other conflict of the 21st century.
Faced with the deadliest conflict of the 21st century, the international community must act ???? pic.twitter.com/UJkOrhnPbp
— Oxfam France (@oxfamfrance) January 11, 2024
In a press release, the NGO notes that the already catastrophic humanitarian situation of the 2.4 million inhabitants is further aggravated by the drop in temperatures.
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