Gaza, Oct 9 (EFE).- The death toll in Gaza has surpassed 42,000 following a year of ongoing Israeli military operations across the besieged Strip, Palestinian health officials said on Wednesday.<\/p>
\u201cThe Israeli occupation committed three massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, causing 45 martyrs and 130 injuries in the last 24 hours,\u201d the Hamas-run Gazan health ministry said in a statement.<\/p>
The total number of deaths has now reached 42,010, including more than 16,900 children and around 11,500 women, representing 69 percent of the fatalities, the ministry added.<\/p>
Since the Israeli operation against Hamas began on Oct. 7, 2023, another 97,720 people have been injured.<\/p>
At least 18 Gazans were killed in Israeli airstrikes targeting residential areas in central and northern Gaza, where at least 400,000 people remain despite Israeli evacuation orders.<\/p>
Nine members of a family were killed when Israeli fighter jets struck two houses in the Shujaiya neighborhood, east of Gaza City, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society.<\/p>
The official Palestinian Wafa news agency reported that three more people, including a child, were killed when Israeli jets bombed a house in the Nuseirat refugee camp.<\/p>
Additionally, four people died in an airstrike in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, an area the Israeli army has ordered to be evacuated in recent days.<\/p>
Israeli forces continued their military operations around three major hospitals in northern Gaza, including Kamal Adwan, Al Awda, and the Indonesian hospital. These facilities are currently treating a total of 317 patients, with 80 in intensive care units.<\/p>
Humanitarian organizations have warned that the new Israeli evacuation orders in northern Gaza are worsening the already dire humanitarian situation in the Strip.<\/p>
\u201cThese forced mass evacuations of homes and the bombing of neighborhoods by Israeli forces are turning the north of Gaza into an unlivable wasteland,\u201d Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said in a statement.<\/p>
\u201cIsraeli forces must urgently halt evacuation orders, ensure the protection of civilians, and allow desperately needed humanitarian supplies to immediately enter the north of Gaza,\u201d the organization added. EFE <\/p>
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