Israel committed 17 horrific massacres in Gaza

The Ministry of Health in Gaza announced on Tuesday that the death toll from the ongoing Israeli aggression on the strip had reached 19,667 and the number of injured had risen to 52,586.

The Ministry’s spokesperson Ashraf Al-Qudra said: “In the past hours, the Israeli occupation forces committed 17 horrific massacres in all areas of the Gaza Strip.” He added: “214 martyrs and 300 injured were brought to hospitals in the past hours, and many victims are still under the rubble and on the roads.”

The ministry also expressed its astonishment at the international silence over the massacres committed by Israeli forces in northern Gaza, and the occupation’s persistence in the genocide of the population.

It confirmed that the Israeli massacres in northern Gaza occurred in the absence of health services due to the destruction of hospitals and their closure, which means the inability to provide care for the injured. It also pointed out that the Israeli occupation forces turned Al Awda Hospital into a military base and detained 240 people inside without water, food, or medicine.

Meanwhile, the government media in Gaza also reported that the number of journalists killed had increased to 97, after journalist Adel Zorob was killed in a bombing in Rafah, south of the Strip.

Moreover, Fadel Naeem, head of the orthopaedic department at Al-Ahli Al-Maamdani Hospital – one of the few hospital institutions still in service in the northern Gaza Strip – said that the hospital stopped working on Tuesday after the Israeli army raided it. The occupation army surrounded the hospital and arrested several doctors, nurses, and the wounded, according to Naeem.

Naeem added that the hospital was out of service due to the occupation forces raiding it, and it was impossible to receive patients or injured people, despite reports of dozens of wounded in the streets due to the ongoing Israeli aggression.