The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza announced on Tuesday that the death toll from the genocidal war waged by Israel over the past 22 months has risen to "62,064 martyrs and 156,573 wounded."
The ministry said in a statement that hospitals in the Gaza Strip received "60 martyrs (including two rescued bodies) and 343 injured people in the past 24 hours." It explained that the total number of victims among those waiting for aid has risen since May 27 to "1,996 martyrs and more than 14,898 injured," after 31 Palestinians were killed and 197 others were injured in the space of 24 hours.
Far from the oversight of the United Nations and international relief organizations, Tel Aviv began implementing an aid distribution plan on May 27, which Palestinians have come to call "death traps." This plan is supported by Israel and the United States, but rejected by the United Nations.
In this context, the ministry stated that the death toll from Palestinian casualties since Israel resumed its genocide on March 18 has reached "10,518 martyrs and 44,532 injured."
24 martyrs Tuesday
In the same context, 24 Palestinians, including at least five children, were killed early Tuesday morning in Israeli attacks on various areas of the Gaza Strip, as part of the genocidal war being waged by Tel Aviv for the past 22 months.
According to medical sources and eyewitnesses, the attacks targeted tents housing displaced people and civilians, as well as aid waiting points.
During the night, the Israeli occupation forces carried out a limited incursion into the Sabra neighborhood, near the Sabra School in southern Gaza City. This incursion coincided with heavy artillery shelling that left a total of five martyrs.
This comes amid violent and widespread bombing operations carried out by the occupation army in the Al-Sabra and Al-Zeitoun neighborhoods (southeast), and bombing by warplanes, in the midst of the military operation that the occupation army began on August 11.
In the central Gaza Strip, five Palestinians, including a woman, were killed and others were injured in an Israeli airstrike targeting Al-Barakah Street in Deir al-Balah. Five Palestinians, including three children and a woman, were also killed in an airstrike on a tent belonging to the Masmah family in the Al-Basah area.
Around the Netzarim axis, a Palestinian was killed and others waiting for aid were injured by Israeli gunfire near the US-Israeli aid distribution center.
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In the southern Gaza Strip, four Palestinians, including a mother and her two children, were killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting a tent for displaced people in the Al-Mawasi area west of Khan Yunis. Two Palestinians were killed and 10 others were injured in an Israeli airstrike near the Applied Science College in the Al-Mawasi area of Khan Yunis.
Two Palestinians were also killed and others injured in Rafah. The first was killed in an Israeli bombardment of a tent housing displaced persons opposite the Muawiya Mosque in the Al-Mawasi area, and the second was killed by Israeli gunfire near an aid distribution center (northwest).
Martyrs of the press
In a related context, the Government Media Office in the Gaza Strip announced today, Tuesday, that the number of Palestinian journalists killed in the Strip has risen to 239, as a result of the ongoing Israeli genocide since October 7, 2023.
The office said in a statement: "The number of martyred journalists has risen to 239 since the beginning of the genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, following the announcement of the martyrdom of our colleague, journalist Islam al-Komi (due to an Israeli bombardment of the al-Sabra neighborhood in southern Gaza City)."
He stressed that Al-Komi "worked as a journalist and content creator for several media platforms," and condemned "in the strongest terms the systematic targeting, killing, and assassination of Palestinian journalists by the Israeli occupation."
He called on the International Federation of Journalists, the Arab Journalists Union, and all journalistic bodies worldwide to condemn these systematic crimes against Palestinian journalists and media professionals in the Gaza Strip.
He also held "the Israeli occupation, the US administration, and countries complicit in the crime of genocide, such as the United Kingdom, Germany, and France, fully responsible for committing these heinous, brutal crimes."
Israel has been targeting journalists inside Gaza despite international warnings, deliberately bombing, arresting, or threatening them. Observers consider this an attempt to silence their voices, which Tel Aviv considers revealing details of the genocide it is committing in the Strip.
Since October 7, 2023, Israel, with American support, has been committing genocide in Gaza, including killing, starvation, destruction, and forced displacement, ignoring all international calls and orders from the International Court of Justice to halt it.
In addition to the martyrs and wounded, most of whom were children and women, the genocide left more than 9,000 missing, hundreds of thousands displaced, and a famine that claimed the lives of 266 people, including 112 children.
