KEY POINTS
- Israeli strikes kill 88 Palestinians in Gaza in 24 hours, raising the total death toll to 45,805.
- Airstrikes in Sheikh Radwan, Nuseirat, and Jabalia kill dozens, including women and children.
- The Israeli military claims over 100 strikes targeted Hamas sites in two days.
- Israel faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for attacks in Gaza.
- Eight infants have died from hypothermia in Gaza as temperatures plummet.
GAZA CITY: The health ministry in Gaza said on Sunday that Israeli strikes killed 88 people in the Palestinian territory in the past 24 hours, taking the overall death toll of the war to 45,805 since October 2023. The Israeli military said that it had struck more than 100 targets in the Gaza Strip over the past two days.
The ministry also said in a statement that at least 109,064 people had been wounded in nearly 15 months of the Israeli military campaign after Hamas’s October 7, 2023, cross-border attack.
At least 11 people were killed in an air strike on a house in northern Gaza’s Sheikh Radwan area early on Sunday, civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal said, adding that the dead included women and children.
“Rescuers are still searching for five people trapped under the rubble of the house,” he said.
“Rescuers are using their bare hands because we lack proper equipment.”
Bassal accused Israeli forces of “directing violent air strikes on homes where displaced people were sheltering, claiming they were targeting resistance fighters”.
In a separate strike, five people were killed when the house of the Abu Jarbou family was struck in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, the civil defence said.
Another strike killed four people in the town of Jabalia, the agency added.
The Israeli military said that several of the strikes targeted sites from which Hamas’s fighters had been firing projectiles into Israel in recent days.
“The IAF (air force) struck over 100 targets throughout the Gaza Strip and eliminated dozens of Hamas fighters” in the past two days, a military statement said.
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Gaza’s health ministry on Saturday said that at least 59 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks in 24 hours. “Israeli forces killed 59 people and injured 273 others in four massacres of families in the last 24 hours,” the ministry said on Saturday.
The second year of Israeli attacks in Gaza has drawn growing international condemnation, with officials and institutions denouncing the attacks and blocking of aid deliveries as a deliberate attempt to destroy a population.
Genocide Case Against Israel
On November 21, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.
Israel also faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its deadly war on Gaza.
Last week, Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz warned of intensified Israeli strikes if the incoming rocket fire continued.
Truce Talks Resume as Babies Freeze to Death
The latest violence in Gaza comes as indirect negotiations for a hostage release deal and a ceasefire had resumed in Qatar.
Mediators Qatar, Egypt and the United States have been engaged for months in efforts to strike a deal to end the war and secure the release of dozens of hostages still held in Gaza.
Meanwhile, an eighth baby has died of hypothermia in Gaza as temperatures plummet amid the Israeli bombardment.
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“I am the mother of Yousef. I lost him. They didn’t give a single moment to feel happy with my baby,” the infant’s mother told Al Jazeera.
“He died because of the very cold weather. He slept next to me and in the morning I found him frozen and dead. I don’t know what to say,” she said.
“No one can feel my misery. No one in the world can understand our catastrophic situation. Yousef was fine. He was born healthy … I lost Yousef forever.”
