Gaza’s Health Ministry reports rising casualties amid escalated Israeli attacks, with victims trapped under rubble.
Published On ۲۹ Aug ۲۰۲۶
Several people have been wounded in an Israeli strike on a medical warehouse inside a hospital compound in central Gaza, while separate attacks killed two people elsewhere in the Strip.
The Israeli drone strike targeted a tent used as a medical supply warehouse inside the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital complex in Deir el-Balah on Saturday, injuring three people, the hospital’s director said.
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The Israeli military confirmed it hit a target within the compound of Al-Aqsa Hospital, claiming without evidence that a Hamas commander was struck.
Separately, another Israeli drone struck a bike in Gaza City’s Tal al-Hawa neighbourhood. The Palestinian Wafa news agency reported that at least one person was killed and two injured in that attack. The casualties were taken to al-Quds Field Hospital.
In a separate attack earlier in the day, one person was killed by Israeli gunfire in the village of al-Musaddar, east of Deir el-Balah.
An Israeli quadcopter also dropped an explosive device in the vicinity of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, according to hospital officials.
Israel has escalated its attacks across the Gaza Strip in recent days despite the so-called “ceasefire”.
Gaza’s Health Ministry reported receiving a total of ۱۰ bodies over the past ۴۸ hours – nine newly killed and one recovered from under rubble – along with ۱۸ wounded.
It said other victims remain trapped beneath destroyed buildings or on roads that ambulance and civil defence crews have been unable to reach.
Since the “ceasefire” between Israel and Hamas took effect in October last year, the ministry said, ۱,۳۱۳ Palestinians have been killed by Israeli attacks.
Meanwhile, between ۴,۰۰۰ and ۵,۰۰۰ Palestinians remain missing and are believed to be under rubble in Gaza, the Palestinian Centre for Missing and Forcibly Disappeared Persons said on Saturday.
It added that between ۲,۵۰۰ and ۳,۰۰۰ people may have been subjected to forced disappearance in Gaza during Israel’s genocidal war.
The centre’s estimate is based on an analytical study of a sample of ۳۱۷ cases, and it said the findings showed indicators warranting an investigation into the possibility of a broader pattern of enforced disappearances.
Of the ۳۱۷ cases examined, ۳۰۲, or ۹۵.۲۷ percent, were male and ۱۵ were female. The sample included ۴۱ children and ۱۷ people aged ۶۰ or older.
Since Israel’s war began in October ۲۰۲۳, more than ۷۳,۰۰۰ Palestinians have been killed in Gaza and more than ۱۷۴,۰۰۰ injured, most of them women and children.
