[News] More than 700 killed in overnight Israeli attacks, the highest number of deaths in Gaza in a 24-hour period since Israeli assault began.

[Anti-Imperialist News]

 More than 700 killed in overnight Israeli attacks,

*Health ministry says it was the highest number of deaths in Gaza in a
24-hour period since Israeli assault began.*
[image: A Palestinian carries a child casualty at the site of an Israeli
strike]
A Palestinian carries a child casualty at the site of an Israeli attack on
a house, in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip [Ibraheem Abu
Mustafa/Reuters]
Published On 24 Oct 2023
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More than 700 Palestinians were killed in overnight Israeli air raids on
Gaza, according to Palestinian officials, the highest 24-hour death toll
since Israel began bombarding the the besieged territory earlier this month.

The Israeli military said on Tuesday it hit more than 400 “Hamas targets”
and killed dozens of Hamas fighters in the attacks, and warned that it
would take time to achieve its aim of destroying the Palestinian group.

Israel launched an assault on Gaza after Hamas fighters killed at least
1,400 people in a surprise attack on southern Israel on October 7.

The health ministry in Gaza, which is governed by Hamas, has said at least
5,791 Palestinians, including 2,360 children, have been killed in the
Israeli assault.

A total of 704 people were killed in the previous 24 hours alone, the
ministry said on Tuesday.

Ministry spokesman Ashraf Al-Qidra said it was the highest 24-hour number
of deaths in the two weeks of Israeli bombing.
[image: Palestinians rescue a survivor of Israeli bombardment of the Gaza
Strip in Nusseirat refugee camp]Palestinians rescue a survivor of Israeli
bombardment of the Gaza Strip in Nuseirat refugee camp [Ali Mohmoud/AP
Photo]

“Thousands of families have been instantly displaced; its just full of
rubble and debris everywhere,” said Al Jazeera’s Youmna ElSayed, reporting
from Gaza.

“You can hear the sound of drones and Israeli jets in the sky. Everyone
says, everyone feels that there is no safe place in the Strip to be in
anymore”.

The Israeli military said it killed three Hamas deputy commanders in the
attacks.

Witnesses and health officials said many of the air raids hit residential
buildings, some of them in southern Gaza where Israel had told civilians to
take shelter.

One overnight attack levelled a four-storey residential building in the
southern city of Khan Younis, killing at least 32 people and wounding
dozens of others, survivors told The Associated Press news agency.

In Gaza City, at least 19 people were killed when an air raid hit the house
of the Bahloul family, according to survivors, who said dozens more people
remained buried. Workers pulled at least two children out of the collapsed
building.
[image: INTERACTIVE_INFRASTRUCTURE_DAMAGE_GAZA_OCT23_2023-2-1698040482][Al
Jazeera] Aid trucks

In addition to bombarding the territory, Israel has cut access to food,
water, medicine and fuel in a “complete siege”.

More than 40 medical centres have stopped operations due to the shortages
and the damage caused by the bombing, the health ministry spokesperson said.

Several aid trucks have crossed from Egypt to Gaza since Sunday, but the
United Nations has warned of a “humanitarian catastrophe” if aid shipments
were not ramped up significantly.

Jeremey Laurence, spokesperson for the Office of the UN High Commissioner
for Human Rights (OHCHR), said, “The aid which resumed from Egypt over the
weekend is a mere drop in the ocean of what is needed.”

Fuel, which has been left out of the deliveries due to the agreement with
Israel, was crucial, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for
Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) said.

“Fuel is extremely urgent because, without fuel, the trucks themselves
cannot move,” UNRWA spokesperson Tamara Alrifai said. “Without fuel, the
generators cannot produce electricity for hospitals, for bakeries and for
the water desalination plant”.

UN humanitarian agencies said on Tuesday they were on their “knees”
pleading for unimpeded aid to enter Gaza.


Source: Al Jazeera and news agencies
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