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24 hours in Gaza: Israel massacres over 60 Palestinians

Sunday, 21 July 2024 4:03 PM [ Last Update: Sunday, 21 July 2024 4:03 PM ]

Palestinians carry the bodies of members of a family to a burial ground in Khuzaa in the southern Gaza Strip on July 21, 2024. (AFP)

Israel's airstrikes on residential buildings and tent camps across the Gaza Strip have claimed the lives of more than 60 Palestinians over the past 24 hours, according to Gaza health officials.

The Gaza Health Ministry said on Sunday that the regime's military forces “killed 64 people and "injured 105 others in four ‘massacres’ against families in the last 24 hours.”

“Many people are still trapped under rubble and on the roads as rescuers are unable to reach them.”

The toll has brought the number of Palestinians killed by Israel’s military forces since October to 38,983, the ministry’s latest figures show. More than 89,727 others were also injured.

That figure doesn’t include the more than at least 10,000 people that the UN estimates are still missing beneath the rubble, citing the Palestinian Civil Defense (PCD).

Palestinians make their way over the dirty rubble, past destroyed buildings in the Shujaiya neighborhood, east of Gaza City on July 11, 2024. (AFP)

The challenge of finding the missing is growing more dire, given the widespread destruction of heavy machinery and equipment needed to dig through the debris.

The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor said earlier in July that the regime has “a pattern of systematic operations to prevent and obstruct the recovery of victims and missing persons from under the rubble.”

About “80% of the rescue vehicles and equipment” have been destroyed in Israeli attacks and “there is no fuel to move the rest of those vehicles and equipment," according to the Gaza government media office.

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