Death toll in Gaza throughout the 11-week assault hits 20,258 whereas 53,688 others are wounded.
At least 201 Palestinians have been killed and almost 370 wounded by Israeli forces previously 24 hours in Gaza because the assault on the besieged enclave nears its twelfth week.
Bombing in central Gaza’s Bureij refugee camp killed no less than eight Palestinians, together with kids, on Saturday whereas one other assault on Jabalia camp is believed to have killed dozens extra.
The demise toll in Gaza throughout the 11-week assault has hit 20,258 whereas 53,688 others are wounded, the Palestinian well being ministry stated on Saturday.
Thousands extra our bodies are believed to be trapped beneath the rubble throughout the strip.
Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum, reporting from Rafah, stated the Israeli assaults throughout Gaza “have become much more intense”.
“The bombardment and the shelling of the northern parts of the territory continue as dead bodies have been found decomposed after days of fighting in the ground in these areas,” he stated.
Al Jazeera TV stated the decomposed our bodies, a few of them left unattended for 20 days within the rubble and streets, had been lastly buried by Gaza’s Civil Defence workforce on Saturday.
‘No place safe’
Almost all of Gaza’s 2.3 million individuals have been displaced and compelled to reside in flimsy tents or on the streets within the southern a part of the strip, the place widespread starvation has been reported.
Israel has lengthy urged the Palestinians to go away northern areas of Gaza however its forces have additionally been bombarding neighbourhoods in central and southern elements of the tiny coastal enclave.
“Where should we go to? There is no place safe,” Ziad, a medic and father of six, advised the Reuters information company by telephone.
“They ask people to head to [the central Gaza city of] Deir el-Balah, where they bomb day and night.”
Israel has stated 144 of its troopers have been killed because it launched its floor incursion on October 20, two weeks after Hamas launched an unprecedented assault on its soil, killing 1,147 individuals and taking 240 captives into the enclave.
More than 100 captives are nonetheless believed to be in Gaza after numerous individuals had been exchanged throughout a weeklong truce final month. The Israeli authorities says of these nonetheless in Gaza, 22 are useless.
Hamas on Saturday stated it had misplaced contact with a bunch it stated was liable for 5 of the Israeli captives on account of Israeli bombardment.
There is a risk the captives had been killed throughout an Israeli raid, Abu Ubaida, spokesman of Hamas’s armed wing, the Qassam Brigades, stated.
There was no quick response from Israeli authorities about Hamas’s assertion.
Drawing on varied data sources, an Israeli government-appointed committee has been declaring some hostages useless in absentia.
Hamas has not confirmed these accounts however has warned Israel that “time is running out” for the captives.
Osama Hamdan, Hamas consultant in Beirut, on Saturday, stated there shall be no negotiations with Israel on the alternate of captives till the onslaught on Gaza stops.
“If Israel wants to recover its prisoners alive, it must stop the war,” he stated.
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