Over 68,100 Palestinians killed in GAZA since October 2023
GAZA: The Gaza health ministry says the bodies of 29 people have arrived at the enclave’s hospitals in the last 48 hours, Al Jazeera reports.
This includes “23 recovered martyrs, two martyrs who died from their injuries, and four martyrs as a result of direct targeting by the [Israeli] occupation, and 21 injuries in the past 48 hours, in addition to 11 martyrs under the rubble in the Abu Shaaban massacre who have not been recovered yet and therefore have not been added to the statistics”.
This brings the total casualties inflicted by Israel on Gaza since October 7, 2023, to 68,116 killed and 170,200 wounded.
Gaza media office says Israel violated ceasefire dozens of times: A statement from the Gaza government media office on Telegram says the Israeli army has committed 47 violations after the truce deal entered into force in early October, killing 38 people and wounding another 143, Al Jazeera reports.
The office called the actions “flagrant and clear violations of the ceasefire decision and the rules of international humanitarian law”.
According to the statement, the Israeli forces directly fired at and bombed civilians, and carried out arrests. It said that these practices reflect Israel’s “continued aggressive approach despite the declaration of a ceasefire”.
Gaza’s Rafah border crossing to reopen on Monday, Palestinian embassy in Egypt says: Gaza’s Rafah border crossing with Egypt will be reopened on Monday, Reuters reports quoting a statement from the Palestinian embassy in Egypt.
The crossing, which has been largely closed since May 2024, will allow Palestinians residing in Egypt to return to Gaza, the embassy said.
Families of Palestinian medical personnel detained in Israeli prisons have held a protest in the southern Gaza Strip, demanding the release of their loved ones after nearly two years of enforced disappearance, Al Jazeera reports.
Attendees of the vigil, which was organised at Nasser Medical Complex with the participation of the Ministry of Health, held up banners demanding the release of their relatives, along with photos of some of the detained medical personnel.
Previous data from Gaza’s Government Media Office stated that Israel arrested 362 medical personnel over the course of the two-year war. Families of medical personnel in Gaza demanded the release of their loved ones, including 88 doctors, 132 nurses, 72 medical assistants and 47 administrative staff in the health sector.
Israel has returned the bodies of 15 Palestinians to Gaza, bringing the total number handed over to 135, AFP reports citing the enclave’s health ministry.
Under a ceasefire deal brokered by US President Donald Trump, Israel was to turn over the bodies of 15 Palestinians for every deceased Israeli returned.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office has said that the body of a deceased captive Hamas returned overnight has been identified as Eliyahu Margalit, AFP reports.
The Israeli military “informed the family of the abductee Eliyahu Margalit… that [the body of] their loved one has been returned to Israel and his identification has been completed”, Netanyahu’s office said in a statement, adding that it would “not compromise” and “will spare no effort until we return all of the fallen abductees, down to the last one”. Monitoring Desk
