At least 143 people have been killed in a wave of Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip since dawn on Thursday, the day Palestinians commemorate Nakba, the ethnic cleansing of historic Palestine when the State of Israel was founded in 1948.
The bombing continues in Gaza with no respite for the people who are living in a famine due to Israel’s complete blockade of all aid since March.
Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 53,010 Palestinians and wounded 119,919, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. The Government Media Office updated the death toll to more than 61,700, saying thousands of people missing under the rubble are presumed dead.
At least 61 people were killed overnight and early on Thursday in a barrage of attacks on the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, according to local health officials. In Jabalia in northern Gaza, an Israeli strike on al-Tawbah medical clinic killed at least 15 people and wounded several others, the health ministry said.
Israel’s army also attacked three hospitals in north and south Gaza: al-Awda hospital in Jabalia, the Indonesian Hospital in Khan Younis, and the European hospital.
Meanwhile, UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) chief Catherine Russell on Thursday decried the killing of nearly 50 children in Israeli air strikes against the Gaza Strip in the past two days.
“More than 1 million children in Gaza are at risk of starvation. They are deprived of food, water and medicine,” she said. “All parties to the conflict must respect international humanitarian law.”
