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Gaza Information Office: The death toll rose to 14,532, including more than 6,000 children.
Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki said on Wednesday that more than 50 members of a family were killed in the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip during the Israeli military campaign.
He added, on the sidelines of a press conference for Arab and Muslim foreign ministers in London, that 52 members of the Qaddoura family were killed in Jabalia this morning alone.
He explained that he had a “list of names”, underlining that the family had been completely exterminated, from grandfather to grandchildren.
For its part, the Gaza Information Office announced that the number of Palestinians who died as a result of Israeli bombing has risen to 14,532, including more than 6,000 children.
Additionally, the Israeli military announced today the interception of a cruise missile launched towards Eilat, southern Israel. The army said in a statement: “Following a report regarding the infiltration of an enemy aircraft in the area of the Red Sea city of Eilat in the south of the country, an Israeli Air Force fighter plane managed to intercept a cruise missile launched against Israel.”
The war between the Israeli army and Palestinian armed factions in Gaza entered its 47th day on Wednesday, as indicators began to show signs of a resolution to the crisis with the imminent implementation of a ceasefire agreement.
Israel renewed its raids in several areas of the northern Gaza Strip, a few hours before the start of the implementation of the truce announced by Israel and Hamas, with Qatari-Egyptian mediation. At the same time, correspondents from Al-Arabiya and Al-Hadath reported new rocket bombardments on Sderot and settlements surrounding Gaza.
The Palestinian Red Crescent said today that 14 of its ambulances had arrived, accompanied by the United Nations and Doctors Without Borders, to evacuate the sick and injured from Al-Shifa hospital in the northern Gaza Strip to hospitals in the south.
The Red Crescent added in a statement that the cars will transport kidney patients to Abu Youssef Al-Najjar Hospital in Rafah, while the injured will be transported to the European Hospital south of Khan Yunis.
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The Israeli government and the Hamas movement have agreed to a truce for a period of four days to allow the release of 50 detainees in Gaza in exchange for the release of 150 Palestinians in Israeli prisons and the entry of humanitarian aid into the besieged Strip, according to efforts of Qatar and Egypt.
Hamas is believed to be holding more than 240 people it brought to Gaza when its fighters infiltrated Israel in the October 7 surprise attack, which killed 1,200 people according to Israeli statistics.
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The Gaza Ministry of Health announced that 14,128 Palestinians have been killed in ongoing Israeli shelling of the Gaza Strip since the war broke out on October 7. Among the deaths counted so far there are 5,840 children and 3,920 women. The bombing also injured another 33,000 people.
For its part, the Palestinian news agency said on Wednesday that the Israeli army threatened to storm Indonesia’s Beit Lahia hospital in the northern Gaza Strip within hours, claiming it contained “military activities.”
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He added that one of the hospital’s administrators received a text message from an army officer that said: “A special warning to evacuate the Indonesian hospital. The Israeli army has information about military activity inside the hospital. hospital and immediately requests that all military activities in the hospital must be stopped. If military activity does not stop within 4 hours: the military reserves the right to take action against military operations in accordance with international laws.”
Indonesia’s hospital administration has warned against repeating the scenario of the Al-Shifa medical complex in Gaza City, which Israeli forces stormed last week and evacuated most of the patients, companions and displaced people.
About 100 wounded and sick were evacuated at midnight last night from the Indonesian hospital to the Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis, in coordination with the International Committee of the Red Cross, a few hours after a shelling hit the Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis , killing at least 12 people.
According to the agency, there are still 630 injured and patients in the Indonesian hospital, including about 50 whose cases require the evacuation of ambulances, as well as 200 health workers.
Gaza health officials said Tuesday they had lost the ability to count the dead due to the collapse of parts of the health system in the Strip and the difficulty of recovering bodies from areas overrun by tanks and Israeli forces.
The challenges of verifying the death toll have increased as Israel’s land invasion has intensified, at times disrupting phone and internet services and spreading chaos across the region.
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