Al Jazeera :
Israeli military attacks have killed 69 people and injured 136 more in the latest 48-hour reporting period, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.
Israel has ordered mass evacuations in northern and southern Gaza, including areas in the south it previously designated as “safe zones”.
At least 16 people, including nine children, were reported killed in an overnight Israeli attack on displaced people in central Gaza’s az-Zawayda.
Ten people have been reported killed in an Israeli strike on a residential building in the city of Nabatieh in southern Lebanon, according to Lebanese media.
At least 40,074 people have been killed and 92,537 wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks on October 7 and more than 200 were taken captive.
The Israeli army killed 69 more Palestinians in attacks in the Gaza Strip, taking the overall death toll to 40,074 since last Oct. 7, the Health Ministry in the enclave said on Saturday, Anadolu reports.
A ministry statement added that some 92,537 other people have been injured in the ongoing deadly attacks.
“Israeli forces killed 69 people and injured 136 others in five ‘massacres’ against families in the last 48 hours,” the ministry said.
“Many people are still trapped under rubble and on the roads as rescuers are unable to reach them,” it added.
Israel, flouting a UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate cease-fire, has faced international condemnation amid its continued brutal offensive on Gaza since an Oct. 7 attack by Hamas.
More than 10 months into the Israeli war, vast tracts of Gaza lie in ruins amid a crippling blockade of food, clean water, and medicine.
Israel is accused of genocide at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which ordered it to immediately halt its military operation in the southern city of Rafah, where more than 1 million Palestinians had sought refuge from the war before it was invaded on May 6.
On day 316 of the genocide in Gaza, the total number of Palestinians killed since the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip started on October 7 has risen to 40,074, in addition to 92,537 injuries, according to the daily report published by the Health Ministry in Gaza on Saturday.
“Israel” committed five massacres in 48 hours, killing 69 Palestinians and injuring 136 others, despite the ongoing ceasefire talks in Doha.
While some were transported to partially functioning hospitals, many victims remain trapped beneath the rubble with rescue crews unable to reach them.
Meanwhile, the so-called “humanitarian zone” has been reduced by “Israel” to just 11% of the Gaza Strip, which has left the displaced in a state of chaos and terror, according to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA).
In an X post, UNRWA said: “Thousands of families in Gaza have been displaced as the occupation authorities issue new evacuation orders,” adding, “Once again, fear spreads as families have nowhere to go. People remain trapped in an endless nightmare of death and destruction on a staggering scale.”
By mid-August, Gaza’s Health Ministry identified by name 32,280 Palestinians killed by “Israel” amid its ongoing genocidal war on Gaza. They have been classified as civilians due to their age or gender, including 10,627 children, 5,956 women, and 2,770 elderly people.
Other civilian casualties include 168 journalists, 855 medical staff, and 79 paramedics. This accounts for more than 20,000 civilians and excludes many civilian men who have also been killed just because of their age.
This toll is unprecedented in the decades-long struggle between “Israel” and Palestine, and historically extraordinarily high. Massive bombs fall daily, often killing dozens at a time. Survivors of each Israeli attack are left not only to grieve but also to grapple with the trauma of living under the constant threat of death and the looming fear of further attacks.
In recent hours, many Palestinians have been killed and others injured, with many being transferred to the Kuwait Specialized Hospital following an Israeli airstrike that targeted the vicinity of the Hamad Residential City in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, according to Al Mayadeen’s correspondent.
Israeli warplanes also bombed the al-Amwaj hall west of Rafah in southern Gaza, along with other locations in western Rafah.
In the central region of the Gaza Strip, Israeli artillery targeted areas in the eastern part of the central governorate.
Early on Saturday, 16 Palestinians were killed and others injured as Israeli forces struck a warehouse in the al-Zawayda area in central Gaza. Additionally, Israeli artillery shelled areas north of the al-Nuseirat refugee camp in the central region.
Once again, Israeli occupation forces have forced Palestinians in certain areas and camps within Gaza to flee their homes, which have been destroyed, or where they were seeking shelter, further aggravating their suffering.