In 200 days, Israeli offensive has claimed the lives of more than 34,000 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip

At least 34,200 people died in the Gaza Strip after 200 days of Israeli offensive, while attacks and reports of alleged abuses against civilians in this neck of Palestinian land continue.

Of them, 32 people died in the last 24 hours, in which 59 people were injured, according to the Ministry of Health of the Hamas Government.

“The Israeli occupation committed 3 massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, causing 32 deaths and 59 injuries in hospitals during the last 24 hours,” the Ministry reported today, detailing a total of 77,143 injuries since the start of the war on the 7th. October.

Widespread bombing persisted throughout the Strip, with attacks against the coastal areas of Al Zawaida and Deir al Balah, in the center of the Gaza Strip, but also against the beach of the Nuseirat refugee campamong other places.

The Israeli Army said today that it had attacked some “25” Hamas targets with aircraft in the last 24 hours, including military infrastructure, observation and launch posts, according to a military statement.

In addition, they confirmed having killed several militiamen by “sniper fire” in the central corridor, created in this war by Israel and which cuts the Strip from north to south, and also in the Bureij refugee camp (center), where a plane bombed suspected fighters “hiding next to a civilian shelter,” the statement said.

Bodies continue to appear in a common grave at the Naser hospital

At least 310 bodies have already been exhumed from several mass graves in the courtyards of the Naser Hospital, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, from where Israeli troops withdrew in early April after four months of fighting in this area.

“Palestinian ambulance and civil defense teams today discovered three mass graves with 35 bodies in the Naser medical complex,” the official Palestinian agency Wafa reported on Tuesday, raising the total number of bodies to 310.

The majority of the bodies are children and women, Gazan civilians killed when Israeli troops militarily took over this center, and who would have been buried “collectively” during the siege, according to Palestinian sources.

Palestinian sources and relatives assure that hundreds of people are still missing after the Israeli offensive in Khan Younis, while it is estimated that some 7,000 bodies remain under tons of rubble throughout the Strip, since civilian and ambulance teams cannot reach them due to to the continuous Israeli bombings and the lack of adequate equipment.

UNRWA denounces ill-treatment of Gazan detainees

The United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) denounced this Tuesday in a statement the detention of at least 1,506 Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, including 84 women and 43 minors, and warned that “many” people could have suffered ill treatment and abuse, among which it mentions “violence and sexual harassment.”

UNRWA cites the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights which claimed to have received “numerous reports of mass arrests, ill-treatment and forced executionsdisappearance of possibly thousands of Palestinian men and boys, and several women and girls, at the hands of Israeli forces.”

The UN agency points out that all detainees “were subjected to similar mistreatment”, regardless of sex or age or whether they were disabled or injured or sick.

It also states that “the mistreatment included beatings while they were forced to lie on a thin mattress on the rubble for hours, without food, water or access to a bathroom, with their legs and hands tied with plastic ties.”

Qatar warns that it will reassess its role as mediator

While the incessant Israeli offensive against Gaza continues, the spokesman for the Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Majed al Ansari, assured this Tuesday that he is reevaluating his role as mediator between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas, due to the “attacks” and the “lack of of seriousness” from parties like Israel.

“We are committed to mediation, but we are reevaluating everything now,” the spokesperson said in a press conference, where he noted that this measure is due, among other reasons, to “the campaigns” against Qatar carried out by officials of the Israeli Government, which show a “lack of seriousness” to achieve a solution.

Qatar, together with the United States and Egypt, is trying to achieve a new truce between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group that includes the release of hostages held by Hamas in exchange for Palestinian prisoners and the entry of humanitarian aid, among other issues.