According to a spokesman for the Hamas-run interior ministry in Gaza, more than 1,000 Palestinians are still missing following a series of Israeli airstrikes on Gaza. Israel has launched an offensive on Gaza as a result of Hamas’ terrorist attacks on Israel last week, in which 1,400 Israelis lost their lives. The authorities in Gaza fear that the death toll will rise. Photo: AFP The authorities in Gaza say that several people have been dug out of ruins alive up to 24 hours after buildings have been bombed, writes NTB. Pictures from the area show the rescue work underway to dig people out. Most of the victims in the airstrikes are supposed to be civilians. 254 Palestinians are said to have been killed in the past 24 hours. According to authorities, more than half of those killed are women and children. Pictures from the area show the rescue work underway to dig people out. Photo: SAID KHATIB / AFP WHO warns of “disaster” in Gaza Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has previously said that Israel will act “without reservations and without respite” to destroy Hamas’s military capability. Now the WHO is warning of a “disaster” if emergency aid is not allowed into Gaza. – If help does not come, the doctors will have to “make death certificates for their patients”, says WHO’s regional director for the Eastern Mediterranean, Ahmed Al-Mandhari. – There are 24 hours of water, electricity and fuel left in the Gaza Strip before “a real disaster” takes place, he tells AFP. If assistance does not come, the doctors will have to “draw up death certificates for their patients”, says the WHO Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean Photo: AP He specified that areas under attack must be allowed to receive aid, which is currently stuck at the Rafah border crossing to Egypt. Access to necessary medicine is considered critically low at all the hospitals in the densely populated enclave. About 1,000 patients are treated every day, according to the UN. Gaza’s 20 hospitals are expected to lose access to electricity during the day. About 1,000 patients are treated every day, according to the UN. Photo: DAWOOD NEMER / AFP – Shutting down emergency generators will put the lives of thousands of patients in immediate danger, writes the UN. Also 37 health workers have been killed, this includes doctors, nurses and ambulance workers. The hospitals also function as refuges for Palestinians who have fled south after the Israeli evacuation order was issued a few days ago. At the weekend there were reports that 35,000 people have sought refuge at the Shifa hospital in Gaza ahead of an expected Israeli ground invasion, according to the hospital management. Shifa Hospital is the largest hospital in the Gaza Strip. – They are like walking corpses. It is only a matter of time, says Jonathan Conricus, spokesman for the IDF. Photo: IDF – They are walking corpses. Israel’s ground invasion is approaching, and the IDF has mobilized approximately 360,000 soldiers. The strategic target when Israel enters the Gaza Strip is Hamas: – They are walking corpses. It is only a matter of time. That’s what Jonathan Conricus, spokesman for the IDF, says about people associated with Hamas. He states that civilians are not targets in the military operation. The UN estimated on Saturday that over a million Palestinians may be internally displaced in the Gaza Strip after Israel issued an evacuation order for 1.1 million Palestinians in northern Gaza. – The UN calls this collective punishment. What do you think about it? – It is absurd and unfair. Such statements only come against Israel when Israel defends itself. If there had been other democracies defending themselves, you would not have heard such statements, says Conricus to news. The Israeli army is preparing a ground invasion of the Gaza Strip. Photo: GIL COHEN-MAGEN / AFP When asked who will rule the Gaza Strip if the Hamas leadership falls, Conricus says that “we’ll have to look at that eventually”, but that Israel has no plans to occupy the Gaza Strip.
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