Key Takeaways
- The Health Ministry reports a death toll of 1,100 Palestinians due to the airstrikes.
- Over 5,300 people, including more than 1,200 children, have been wounded.
- All hospital beds are occupied and medicine supplies are critically low.
- Power generators are the only source keeping emergency services running amid a full power cut.
Gaza: The death toll of Palestinians from the ongoing Israeli airstrikes has reached 1,100.
The Health Ministry in Gaza announced this figure in a statement on Wednesday.
The airstrikes were carried out in response to a large-scale surprise attack launched by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) on Saturday.
“About 5,339 Palestinians, including 1,217 children and 744 women, were wounded by the (Israeli) army,” the statement added.
Ministry Undersecretary Yousef Abu Al-Rish told reporters that all hospital beds in the Palestinian enclave had been occupied, and medicines were about to run out as the conflict continued.
Abu Al-Rish said the ministry was using the limited power of generators to continue emergency services for the injured and sick people, because the Gaza Strip’s power plant had run out of fuel and electricity had been cut off by Israel.
