GAZA – Over 30,960 people have been killed, most of them women and children, in the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, which had entered its 156th day, local Gazan health authorities said.
An additional 72,524 documented injuries were also reported, according to Palestinian news agency Wafa.
This toll remains initial since thousands of victims are feared dead under rubble or left in the streets, with Israeli forces hindering access for ambulance and civil defence crews, it added.
It also reported dozens of Palestinian civilians, including children, were killed over the last hours in a series of Israeli bombardments from the air, land and sea across the besieged Gaza Strip.
In the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, local sources reported a disruption in telecommunications as Israeli airstrikes targeted several homes and the marketplace area in the camp, with the latter catching fire due to one of the strikes.
Intense Israeli carpet bombings also targeted the southern areas of Khan Younis city and other areas, towns and villages, including Al-Matahen, Al-Zawayda and Juhor al-Dik, in the central Gaza Strip.
In northern Gaza, Wafa correspondents reported that several Palestinians were killed when Israeli occupation forces opened fire on civilians waiting for aid at the Kuwait roundabout in northern Gaza. – March 10, 2024