Israel kills 71 Palestinians in 24 hours, continues to block aid, demolish homes
Health ministry reports rising deaths, famine-related fatalities climb as Israel steps up strikes and house demolitions in Gaza
GAZA, Palestine (MNTV) – At least 71 Palestinians, including 22 people seeking aid, have been killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours, Gaza’s health ministry said Thursday. Another 339 were wounded as the Israeli assault on the besieged enclave entered its 11th month.
Medical sources said at least 24 people were killed overnight and into Thursday morning, including a woman and her child in central Gaza’s Bureij refugee camp. Four more Palestinians, among them two children, died of malnutrition and starvation. The ministry said famine-related deaths since October have now reached 317, including 121 children.
The Government Media Office warned that aid remains critically insufficient. Only 467 trucks entered Gaza over the past five days, far short of the 3,000 planned. Officials accuse Israel of blocking deliveries since March 2, leaving thousands of trucks stranded at crossings.
Israeli warplanes struck residential buildings in western Gaza City’s Al-Rimal neighborhood and tents sheltering displaced families in the Shati camp. Strikes also hit Khan Younis in the south, killing one person and injuring a child. At least three Palestinians were shot dead while waiting for aid near the Netzarim Corridor and in Rafah.
Meanwhile, Gaza’s Civil Defense said Israel has demolished more than 1,500 homes in Gaza City’s Al Zeitoun neighborhood since launching a ground offensive earlier this month.
Spokesman Mahmoud Bassal said no buildings remain standing in the southern part of the area, forcing 80% of residents to flee. He accused Israel of using construction machinery, bomb-laden robots, and drones to carry out systematic destruction.
In Geneva, dozens of UN human rights staff urged High Commissioner Volker Turk to publicly call Israel’s campaign in Gaza “genocide,” saying the organization’s silence undermines its credibility.
“OHCHR has a strong legal and moral responsibility to denounce acts of genocide,” the letter said, Reuters reported. “Failing to denounce an unfolding genocide undermines the credibility of the UN and the human rights system itself.”
Since October 7, 2023, Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 62,966 Palestinians and injured more than 159,000, according to health authorities.
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