Dying toll in Gaza in the course of the 11-week assault hits 20,258 whereas 53,688 others are wounded.
At the very least 201 Palestinians have been killed and practically 370 wounded by Israeli forces prior to now 24 hours in Gaza because the assault on the besieged enclave nears its twelfth week.
Bombing in central Gaza’s Bureij refugee camp killed at the least eight Palestinians, together with kids, on Saturday whereas one other assault on Jabalia camp is believed to have killed dozens extra.
The dying toll in Gaza in the course of the 11-week assault has hit 20,258 whereas 53,688 others are wounded, the Palestinian well being ministry mentioned on Saturday.
1000’s extra our bodies are believed to be trapped beneath the rubble throughout the strip.
Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum, reporting from Rafah, mentioned the Israeli assaults throughout Gaza “have turn into far more intense”.
“The bombardment and the shelling of the northern elements of the territory proceed as useless our bodies have been discovered decomposed after days of preventing within the floor in these areas,” he mentioned.
Al Jazeera TV mentioned 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 secure’
Virtually all of Gaza’s 2.3 million individuals have been displaced and compelled to stay in flimsy tents or on the streets within the southern a part of the strip, the place widespread hunger has been reported.
Israel has lengthy urged the Palestinians to leave northern areas of Gaza however its forces have additionally been bombarding neighbourhoods in central and southern elements of the tiny coastal enclave.
“The place ought to we go to? There is no such thing as a place secure,” Ziad, a medic and father of six, informed the Reuters information company by telephone.
“They ask individuals to move to [the central Gaza city of] Deir el-Balah, the place they bomb day and evening.”
Israel has mentioned 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.
Greater than 100 captives are nonetheless believed to be in Gaza after quite a lot of 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 mentioned it had misplaced contact with a bunch it mentioned was chargeable for 5 of the Israeli captives because of Israeli bombardment.
There’s a chance the captives had been killed throughout an Israeli raid, Abu Ubaida, spokesman of Hamas’s armed wing, the Qassam Brigades, mentioned.
There was no instant response from Israeli authorities about Hamas’s assertion.
Drawing on numerous 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 working out” for the captives.
Osama Hamdan, Hamas consultant in Beirut, on Saturday, mentioned there can be no negotiations with Israel on the alternate of captives till the onslaught on Gaza stops.
“If Israel needs to recuperate its prisoners alive, it should cease the conflict,” he mentioned.