More than 900 Palestinians have been killed including 260 children and 230 women in the Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip the Palestinian health ministry said in a statement issued late on Tuesday.
A further 4500 people have been wounded in the ongoing Israeli air strikes. A large number of them are children and women.
For the fourth consecutive day Israeli warplanes have launched hundreds of air raids on civilian houses and infrastructure in various areas of the Gaza Strip leading to hundreds of casualties and vast destruction.
The ministry pointed to an Israeli decision to commit genocide on more than two million people in the Gaza Strip.
The airstrikes have caused the deaths of 150 members of 22 families six health workers and eight journalists while 15 health workers and 20 journalists have been wounded the ministry said.
Airstrikes on residential neighborhoods have displaced approximately 140000 citizens to UN shelters and hospitals. The UN is reporting that at least 200000 residents have been displaced.
The strikes have targeted nine health institutions including the Ministry of Health building the Rimal Clinic and the International Eye Center and bombed 15 ambulances the ministry said.
The situation is further complicated by fuel shortages and electrical outages affecting generators the ministry added.
&ldquoThere continues to be a lack of electricity to operate the health care system. This threatens the lives of all sick and injured people&rdquo the health ministry added in the statement.
The health ministry also called for the opening of a &ldquosafe corridor to ensure the entry of urgent medical aid&rdquo into the territory’s hospitals which are now overwhelmed with the dead and wounded.
