Key points
- Overall 46,584 have been killed since October 7, 2023
- 109,731 people have been wounded
GAZA CITY: The health ministry in Gaza said on Monday that 19 people were killed in the Palestinian territory over the past 24 hours, taking the overall death toll to 46,584 as Israel intensified bombardment despite peace talks with Hamas.
The ministry added that some 109,731 others were wounded in more than 15 months of Israeli bombardment campaign launched after Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack.
Israeli forces killed 19 people and injured 71 others in two massacres of families in the last 24 hours,” the ministry said.
“Many people are still trapped under the rubble and on the roads as rescuers are unable to reach them,” it added.
Five Palestinians were killed and several others injured in an Israeli airstrike targeting a shelter in Gaza City.
Witnesses reported that the strike hit the Salah al-Din School in the al-Daraj neighbourhood, which was being used as a shelter for displaced civilians.
In the northern Gaza Strip, one Palestinian was killed and others wounded in another Israeli airstrike that targeted a group of civilians in Jabalia town.
In central Rafah, located in the southern Gaza Strip, four people were killed and others injured in an Israeli airstrike on a vehicle carrying civilians.
Additionally, one more Palestinian was killed in an Israeli airstrike north of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.
In central Gaza, three Palestinians, including a young girl, were killed and others injured in a strike targeting civilians, as reported by the Baptist Hospital.
Late Sunday, witnesses reported that five Palestinians were killed and others injured in an Israeli strike on a residential block in the Al-Shujaiya neighborhood, east of Gaza City.
Israel trying to reach a deal
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar on Monday said that his country is working hard to reach a deal that would facilitate the release of dozens of hostages from Gaza.
There has been progress in the negotiations for the release of the hostages. Israel really wants to release the hostages and is working hard to secure a deal,” Saar said at a joint press conference with his visiting Danish counterpart Lars Lokke Rasmussen.
Palestinian prisoners’ body chief heads to Qatar
The head of the Palestinian Commission of Detainees’ Affairs, Qadoura Fares, said he will travel to Qatar to follow up on a potential hostage swap deal between Israel and Hamas.
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“I will be in Doha today to communicate with the Palestinian team there to ensure that the standards for completing the prisoner exchange deal are accurate and error-free,” Fares said.
“There are no specific details, and I’m not part of the negotiation team, but the issue of prisoners is not a matter of dispute; it enjoys national consensus.”
Malnutrition in Gaza
Amid Israeli bombardment, parents of children suffering from malnutrition in Gaza have been trying to find relief at UN medical centres but say Israel’s forced evacuation orders are making their situation worse.
“The reason behind my daughter’s condition is displacement. We fled from the north to Rafah and then to Deir el-Balah, where we lived in a tent,” the mother of Misk al-Madhoun, a malnourished child, told Al Jazeera.
“Her malnutrition worsened due to prolonged displacement, lack of food, and financial hardship since my husband’s work stopped during the war”, she said.