Gaza: Death toll rises to 45,581, Hamas denounces international community’s inaction

On the 454th day of the aggression on Gaza, the Israeli army escalated its raids on the central Gaza Strip since dawn today, leaving 67 martyrs and dozens injured, by targeting homes, tents of displaced people and gatherings of civilians.

The Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip announced today, Thursday, that the death toll from the genocide committed by Israel against the Palestinians has risen to 45,581 martyrs and 108,438 wounded since October 7, 2023.

The ministry said - in its daily statistical statement - that the Israeli occupation army committed 5 massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, of which 28 martyrs and 59 injuries arrived at hospitals during the past 24 hours.

The ministry indicated that there are victims under the rubble of destroyed homes and on the roads, estimated at more than 11,000, but civil defense and ambulance crews are unable to reach them due to the repeated Israeli targeting of them.

In the context, Al Jazeera reported, according to medical sources, that 67 Palestinians were killed as a result of Israeli raids on various areas of the Gaza Strip since dawn today.

Al Jazeera's correspondent said that at least 4 Palestinians were killed and others were injured in an Israeli air strike that targeted the Al-Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City.

An Israeli air strike killed at least 10 Palestinians and wounded 15 in a camp for displaced people in the southern Gaza Strip early Thursday, medics said.

The paramedics added that the ten, including women and children, were killed in a tent in the Mawasi area, which had been designated a humanitarian zone since earlier in the Israeli war on the Strip.

Al Jazeera's correspondent also reported that 6 people were killed and 13 injured in an Israeli raid that targeted a building of the Ministry of Interior near the Abu Hamid roundabout area, in the center of Khan Yunis, with a number of missiles.

The Gaza Interior Ministry said that the Director-General of Police, Mahmoud Salah, and his assistant, Hussam Shahwan, were killed in the air strike.

Hamas condemns the failure of the international community

In a statement, the movement condemned "the occupation's escalation of its aggression on various areas of the Gaza Strip, targeting the tents of the displaced in the Mawasi area of Khan Yunis (south), and bombing homes over the heads of those inside them, including residents and displaced people, in Jabalia, Gaza City (north), and Deir al-Balah (center)."

She reported that this escalation led, "in a preliminary toll, to the deaths of more than 50 martyrs, most of whom were women and children."

She stressed that this represents "the fascist occupation's continued persistence in its war of extermination against defenceless civilians, and its unprecedented violation of international and humanitarian laws."

Earlier on Thursday, medical sources and eyewitnesses told Anadolu Agency that dozens of Palestinians were killed and others were injured in a series of Israeli raids targeting civilian gatherings across the Gaza Strip.

Hamas condemned "the failure of the international community and its institutions, and its abandonment of its role in working to stop this crime that has been ongoing for more than 15 months."

She added that this failure is "an indelible stain of shame, a resounding moral failure that history will not forgive, and a humiliating surrender to a group of war criminals who commit the most heinous crimes under the cover of the American administration, which is a partner in them."

Hamas renewed its call to the "Arab and Islamic nation and the free people of the world" to "move at all levels to pressure to stop these daily massacres and escalate activities in solidarity with our Palestinian people."

UN experts express concern over disregard for health rights in Gaza

Meanwhile, UN experts expressed their dismay at the blatant disregard for health rights in the Gaza Strip after the deadly raid on Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip.

They also stressed their concern over the fate of the hospital director, Kamal Abu Safiya, who was arrested by the occupation last Friday, and pointed out that the Israeli forces executed people in the vicinity of Kamal Adwan Hospital, including a Palestinian who was carrying a white flag.

UN experts considered the attacks on health facilities to be part of genocide, and Israeli leaders must bear responsibility for them, stressing that deliberate attacks on health facilities may constitute a war crime.

The UN experts said that the Israeli army has so far killed more than 1,057 Palestinian medical and health workers, and has arbitrarily arrested many others.

Since October 7, 2023, Israel, with American support, has been waging a genocidal war on Gaza, resulting in more than 154,000 Palestinian deaths and injuries, most of them children and women, and more than 11,000 missing, amid massive destruction and famine that killed dozens of children and the elderly, in one of the worst humanitarian disasters in the world.

Tel Aviv continues its massacres, ignoring two arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court on November 21 against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Galant, on charges of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity against Palestinians in Gaza.

Source: Yemen Youth Net + Al Jazeera + Agencies