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A health official has told Al Jazeera news outlet that about 100 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli army bombings in the central region of the Gaza Strip during the past 24 hours, while 158 others have been injured.
At least 21,507 people have been killed and 55,915 injured in Israeli attacks since October 7 in Gaza. On the other hand, the death toll from Hamas’s attack on Israel stands at 1,139.
Meanwhile, the spread of diseases in Gaza has reportedly increased, especially due to the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people in the southern part of the enclave.
According to a report by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), about 180,000 people have been diagnosed with upper respiratory infections, with more than 136,000 cases of diarrhoea recorded among the population.
At least 55,400 cases of lice and scabies and 5,330 cases of chickenpox have also been recorded.
Moreover, the OCHA said that only 13 out of 36 of Gaza’s hospitals were partially functional, nine of them in the south.
“The four hospitals that are partially functional in the north have been offering maternity, trauma, and emergency care services,” it said.
Bd-pratidin English/Golam Rosul
