Day Eight: Death Toll Rises | Israel Targets Journalists, Hospitals | Palestine Chronicle

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Israeli airstrikes on besieged Gaza continue for the sixth day in a row. (Photo: Mahmoud Ajjour, The Palestine Chronicle)Israeli airstrikes on besieged Gaza continue for the sixth day in a row. (Photo: Mahmoud Ajjour, The Palestine Chronicle)
 
Numbers paint a horrific picture of what Israeli airstrikes and shelling of Gaza have done to the already besieged and isolated Strip. 400,000 have been displaced and many more are on the run while the number of dead and wounded is now majored in the thousands, mostly perished inside the over 1,300 buildings that have been destroyed so far according to the United Nations. Yet, the resistance continues…
 
By Palestine Chronicle Staff
Oct. 14, 2023
 

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Palestinian Ministry of Health: The number of Palestinians killed and wounded in the Israeli war on Gaza rose to 2,215 killed. 8,714 wounded. In the West Bank, 54 killed and more than 1,100 wounded.

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Saturday, October 14, 12:00 pm (GMT +3)

GAZA’S MINISTRY OF HEALTH: The number of Palestinians killed and wounded in the Israeli war on Gaza rose to 2,215 killed. 8,714 wounded. In the West Bank, 54 killed and more than 1,100 wounded.

Saturday, October 14, 11:00 am (GMT +3)

AJA: 50 Palestinian families have been killed by Israeli airstrikes in Gaza.

DIRECTOR OF AL-AWDA HOSPITAL: We reject the Israeli army’s call to evacuate and face catastrophic conditions for the safety of our patients, especially those in critical condition.

UN: Israeli airstrikes have destroyed more than 1300 buildings in the Gaza Strip.

Al-QASSAM BRIGADES: The Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), announced that it bombed crowds of Israeli occupation forces on Saturday morning in Jaffar Am, northeast of Gaza, with a missile barrage.

JORDAN: Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said that the displacement of Palestinians from their homeland will push the entire region towards an abyss that will deepen escalation and expand the conflict.

AJA: The resistance factions targeted the city of Sderot, northeast of the Gaza Strip, with missile attacks.

Saturday, October 14, 10:00 am (GMT +3)

AJA: Today, Saturday, the Israeli army gave the administration of Al Awda Hospital in northern Gaza until 10 a.m. to evacuate it.

The hospital director rejected the army’s deadline for evacuation, stressing that Gaza was facing “catastrophic conditions.”

Saturday, October 14, 9:00 am (GMT +3)

UNICEF: The situation in the Gaza Strip is catastrophic, with relentless bombing, a massive increase in the displacement of children and families, and a lack of safe places.

WALLA: (citing Israeli army) 230 Hamas leaders and activists have been arrested in the West Bank since the beginning of the war on Gaza.

AJA: Palestinian resistance factions continued, for the eighth day in a row, to bomb Israeli sites and cities with missiles in response to the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip.

ISRAELI ARMY: European Union foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell said on Saturday that Israel’s call to evacuate more than a million Palestinians from the northern Gaza Strip within one day is “absolutely impossible to implement.

EU: European Union foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell said on Saturday that Israel’s call to evacuate more than a million Palestinians from the northern Gaza Strip within one day is “absolutely impossible to implement.

Saturday, October 14, 8:00 am (GMT +3)

UN: More than 400,000 were displaced from their homes in Gaza.

GAZA’S HEALTH MINISTER: 256 Palestinians, including 20 children, were killed during the last 24 hours, while 1,788.

UNICEF: 500 children were killed in Gaza and 1,600 were injured within a week.

AJA: Israeli occupation forces stormed the Qalandiya camp, north of occupied Jerusalem, on Saturday morning.

(The Palestine Chronicle)

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