20,250 dead and 53,600 injured in the Gaza Strip

The number of victims in Gaza strip rose to 20,258 dead and 53,688 injured since the war between the Islamist group Hamas and Israel broke out on October 7, the country’s health authorities reported this Saturday. Palestinian enclave.

He Strip Ministry of Health, controlled by Hamas, it updated the figures after recording 201 deaths and 368 wounded in the past 24 hours from attacks by the Israeli army, which has continued its air, land and sea offensive against the Palestinian enclave since the start of the war on October 7, following an attack by the Islamist group that left about 1,200 dead and 250 kidnapped.

He Israeli army This Saturday, it carried out a series of airstrikes on the Al Bureij refugee camp, located in the center of the Gaza Strip, and on the Jabalia refugee camp, in the north, the official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.

Among the dead in Al Burei was a girl, while in Jabalia dozens of civilians were killed in an attack on a house, and ambulances could hardly reach the wounded due to continuous shelling and shooting, he added.

Hamas militants “since yesterday have been waging fierce armed clashes with enemy forces that entered the Jabalia area, using anti-tank rocket launchers and anti-personnel bombs, killing and wounding a large number of Zionist soldiers,” the report said. Islamist group in Statement.

Israel reported this Saturday that it had launched a series of attacks against Hamas in order to gain full control of northern Gaza.

On the other hand, the eastern regions of Deir al-Balahin central Gaza, as well as the Nuseirat refugee camp, suffered artillery attacks that killed and wounded dozens of civilians.

While in Khan Younis, a Hamas stronghold in the south of the Palestinian enclave, there have been airstrikes as tanks continue to besiege the city, preventing ambulances from reaching the wounded and making it difficult to retrieve bodies, Wafa said.

The war has left 1.9 million people displaced in the Strip – almost the entire population – experiencing an unprecedented humanitarian crisis due to shortages of drinking water, food, medicine, electricity and fuel, with hospitals collapsing and an epidemic … an epidemic in the middle of winter.