Buildings lie in ruin in Beit Hanoon in the north of the Gaza Strip, on January 7, 2025. (Reuters photo)
More than five dozen Palestinians have been killed in the latest Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip as the regime presses ahead with its brutal military campaign across the besieged Palestinian region.
Palestinian Ministry of Health said Thursday that 67 bodies and 184 injured people had arrived at Gaza hospitals in the past 24 hours.
Gaza’s Civil Defense Agency said new Israeli strikes and artillery attacks had killed at least 44 people since early hours of the morning.
“Forty-four people have been killed in Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip,” civil defense official Mohammad al-Mughayyir was quoting as saying .
He said that the death toll includes 23 people in a strike on a home in the center of the besieged Palestinian territory.
“Twenty-three people were killed, others injured and several (are) missing following an Israeli strike on the Qreinawi family’s home east of al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza.”
A footage from al-Bureij showed Palestinians searching through the rubble of a destroyed building.
Mughayyir also reported “two people killed and several injured by Israeli forces’ gunfire this morning near the American aid center in the Morag axis, southern Gaza Strip.”
Meanwhile, the Gaza Journalists Syndicate said that Palestinian journalist Moataz Raja was “assassinated” by the Israeli army while covering its war on Gaza.
The syndicate said that an Israeli strike targeted Raja's vehicle on al-Nafaq Street in Gaza City, killing him instantly.
Israeli attacks have killed at least 221 journalists in Gaza since 7 October 2023.
The UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) said two Palestinians died while storming a warehouse for food in central Gaza’s Deir el-Balah.
Gaza’s Government Media Office said Israeli forces have killed at least 10 Palestinians and wounded 62 others in two days, after they rushed to get aid from a distribution center under a US and Israeli mechanism.
Analysts, activists, and aid agencies have described the US-Israeli plan for aid relief in Gaza as a "mockery" of humanitarian law.
International aid agencies have already warned that Israeli plans to control aid distribution in Gaza, including the US-backed proposal, will only add to the suffering in the devastated Palestinian territory.