DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Hospitals within the Gaza Strip acquired the stays of 51 Palestinians killed in Israeli airstrikes prior to now 24 hours, the native Well being Ministry stated Sunday, bringing the Palestinian dying toll from the 18-month-old Israel-Hamas conflict to 52,243.
Israel ended its ceasefire with Hamas by launching a shock bombardment on March 18 and has been finishing up every day waves of strikes. Floor forces have expanded a buffer zone and encircled the southern metropolis of Rafah; they now management round half of the territory.
Israel has additionally sealed off the territory’s 2 million Palestinians from all imports, together with meals and drugs, for practically 60 days. Help teams say provides will quickly run out and that hundreds of youngsters are malnourished.
The general dying toll contains practically 700 our bodies for which the documentation course of was just lately accomplished, the ministry stated in its newest replace. The every day toll contains our bodies retrieved from the rubble after earlier strikes.
Israeli strikes killed one other 17 folks after the ministry’s replace. Eight of them, together with three youngsters and two ladies, had been killed in a strike on a tent within the southern metropolis of Khan Younis, in accordance with Nasser Hospital. A strike within the central metropolis of Deir al-Balah killed 4 folks, in accordance with Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, and one other on a tent there killed 4 youngsters and a person, the hospital stated.
Israeli authorities say the renewed offensive and tightened blockade are geared toward pressuring Hamas to launch hostages kidnapped in its Oct. 7, 2023, assault that triggered the conflict. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to proceed the conflict till Hamas is destroyed or disarmed and all of the hostages are returned.
Hamas says it is going to launch the remaining 59 hostages — 24 believed to be alive — solely in alternate for Palestinian prisoners, a ceasefire and a full Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, as referred to as for within the now-defunct ceasefire reached in January.
Hamas-led militants killed some 1,200 folks, principally civilians, within the Oct. 7 assault and took 251 folks hostage. Most have since been launched in ceasefire agreements or different offers.
Gaza’s Well being Ministry says ladies and youngsters make up a lot of the Palestinian deaths.
