Fear for civilians in Gaza grow as Israeli occupation goes ahead with brutal strikes on Sunday, the ninth day of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood.
Palestinian media reported many strikes in several areas in northern, central and southern Gaza strip on Sunday.
Health Ministry in Gaza put the number of people martyred by the Israeli strikes so far at 2,329, noting that the number of injured surpassed 9,040.
Spokesman of the Health Ministry in Gaza Ashraf Al Qudra said that the Zionist occupation kills Palestinian civilian every five minutes in Gaza.
He described what is happening in the besieged enclave as “a war of genocide before the silent world.”
Al-Qudra noted that about 70 percent of people in Gaza are deprived of health services.
He demanded the opening of a safe corridor to deliver aid, medical supplies and fuel to the Gaza Strip, calling on the international community to work to evacuate the injured and sick through a safe corridor for treatment outside the coastal strip.
Meanwhile, dozens of Palestinians were laid down in a mass grave in Gaza City due to the overwhelming number of casualties and the lack of space in local cemeteries, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.
A Palestinian doctor receives the news of his son’s tragic death as a result of an Israeli airstrike while the former is at work in a hospital in Gaza. pic.twitter.com/LCQdTPnqC2
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UNRWA director of communications Juliette Touma told AFP that an estimated one million people have now been displaced in the first seven days of the conflict in Gaza.
Staff members of the UN agency give chilling accounts of what life has become in the enclave after days of relentless bombardment from Israel.
“Being in Gaza in these days is all about surviving, not living,” said Azzam in a voice note sent to his colleagues.
Elsewhere in the West Bank, Israeli occupation forces arrested more than 50 Palestinians from several Palestinian cities and towns, Wafa news agency reported.
The agency said that at least 12 were arrested in Bethlehem, 9 in Al-Khalil (Hebron), 3 in Jenin, 8 in Nablus, 3 in occupied Al-Quds (Jerusalem) and 19 in Ramallah.
Source: Palestinian media
