Palestinian Death Toll Passes 64,000, Almost Half Of Them Women And Children: Health Officials

(MENAFN- Nam News Network) DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip, Sept 6 (NNN-WAFA) – More than 64,000 Palestinians have been murdered, in the nearly two-year war in the Gaza Strip, local health officials said, as Hamas and the Zionist Israeli regime reiterated their incompatible demands for ending the fighting.

The Zionist Israeli army strikes murdered 28 people, mostly women and children, overnight, according to hospitals, as Israel pressed ahead with its offensive in famine-stricken Gaza City.

The latest strikes came, as the marauding Israeli troops were operating in parts of Gaza City, with plans to take over all of it. The most populous Palestinian city is home to around a million people, many of whom have already been displaced multiple times.

Shifa Hospital in Gaza City received 25 bodies, including nine children and six women, after the Barbaric Israeli army strikes hit tents, housing displaced people, according to hospital records. Among those murdered was a 10-day-old baby. Another three people were murdered in southern Gaza, according to Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis.

Maha Afana said, the strikes woke her up in the middle of the night, as she slept in a tent in Gaza City with her children. When she checked on them she found the bodies of her son and daughter, drenched with blood.“I started screaming,” she said.

Associated Press footage of the aftermath showed charred tents and debris. The sound of further Israeli bombardment echoed in the background.

“What did those children do to the regime of Israel? They didn't carry a knife or artillery. They were just sleeping,” said Hayam Basous, who lost a relative in the strike.

As usual, there was no immediate comment from the Barbaric Israeli military, which says, it only targets“militants” and tries to avoid harming civilians. It blames civilian deaths on Hamas, saying militants are entrenched in densely-populated areas.

Gaza's Health Ministry said that, 64,231 Palestinians have been murdered, since the start of the war. The latest update includes around 400, who were presumed missing, but whose deaths, it says, have been confirmed.

The ministry doesn't say how many of those killed in the war were militants or civilians. It says women and children make up around half the dead.

The ministry is staffed by medical professionals. Its figures are seen as a reliable estimate of wartime deaths by UN agencies and many independent experts. However, the Israeli regime disputed them, without providing its own toll.– NNN-WAFA

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