Palestinian health authorities have raised the death toll from the Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip.
Gaza’s health ministry said on Telegram the death toll from the airstrikes was 404, raised from 326. It gave the slightly higher figure of 413 on its WhatsApp channel.
Gaza’s health ministry has said over 660 injured Palestinian people have arrived at hospitals with many other victims of the airstrikes thought to be buried under rubble.
The Red Cross said many medical facilities in the Gaza Strip were “overwhelmed” in the aftermath of the attacks.
“What we heard from Palestine Crescent colleagues this morning is that many medical facilities are literally overwhelmed across Gaza,” Tommaso Della Longa, spokesperson for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, said at a briefing in Geneva.
Amid an ongoing aid block aid imposed by Israel, health facilities in Gaza are reporting shortages of basic medical supplies needed to treat injured people, such as painkillers.
Source: The Guardian
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