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Gaza Strip: 371 massacres committed by Israel against Palestinian families

October 17, 2023 at 8:29 am

Injured Palestinian children are carried to Shuhada al-Aqsa Hospital after Israeli airstrikes in Deir-al Balah, Gaza on October 16, 2023 [Ashraf Amra/Anadolu Agency]

The government media office in Gaza said yesterday that since the beginning of the aggression against the Gaza Strip on 7 October, the Israeli occupation has committed 371 massacres against Palestinian families, whose homes were bombed above the heads of their residents without prior warning or notice, resulting in 1,981 martyrs, mostly children and women.

According to the Government Media Office, the number of martyrs in each massacre varies.

Some of these families have been completely wiped out from the civil registry, as happened with Shihab, Al-Najjar, Al-Muqaranah, Nawfal and Al-Dallu families, it added.

The office explained in a press statement that the large number of massacres in this short period of time shows the brutality and criminality of the Israeli occupation and the intensity of the bombing that targeted entire residential neighbourhoods. It also reveals the failure of the international community, which remained silent in the face of these massacres against defenceless, innocent civilians.

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