GAZA: The health ministry in Gaza said on Thursday that 76 people were killed in the Palestinian territory in the past 24 hours, taking the overall death toll to 46,006. The ministry also said in a statement that at least 109,378 people had been wounded in more than 15 months of war by the Zionist entity.
Gaza’s civil defense agency said Zionist forces pounded the Palestinian territory on Thursday. The latest strikes came as Qatar, Egypt and the United States mediate negotiations in Doha between the Zionist entity and Hamas for a deal to end the fighting in Gaza and secure the release of captives.
On Thursday, the death toll from Zionist military strikes included eight Palestinians killed in a house in Jabalia, the largest of Gaza’s eight historic refugee camps. Nine others, including a father and his three children, died in two airstrikes on two houses in central Gaza, health officials said. Local paramedic Mahmud Awad said he helped transfer the bodies of two girls and their father, Mahmud Abu Kharuf to a hospital. "Their bodies were found under the rubble of the house that the occupation bombed in the Nuseirat camp,” Awad told AFP. He added that the body of the third girl had been found earlier by residents.
Dozens of people arrived at the hospital in Deir Al-Balah in central Gaza to mourn their dead relatives, and take their bodies, wrapped in white shrouds, to graves.
"There is no safety in the country, at all, not for a child, a woman, an old person, not for stones or trees, animals or birds or anything. Everyone is targeted, without prior warning,” said resident Adel Al-Mansi. Later on Thursday, six Palestinians were killed in two separate airstrikes, four of them at a school sheltering displaced families near Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, medics said.
In an address delivered by an aide, Pope Francis stepped up his recent criticisms of the Zionist military campaign in Gaza, calling the humanitarian situation "very serious and shameful”. "We cannot accept that children are freezing to death because hospitals have been destroyed or a country’s energy network has been hit.” – Agencies