In Memory of The Gaza Dead

The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza announced that “the death toll from the Israeli aggression has risen to 42,126 martyrs and 98,117 injuries since 7 October, 2023.

The ministry said in a press statement received by Quds Press Friday: “The Israeli occupation committed four massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, 61 martyrs and 231 injuries arrived at hospitals during the past 24 hours.”

It confirmed that “a number of victims are still under the rubble and on the roads, and ambulance and civil defense crews cannot reach them.”

It called on the families of martyrs and missing persons from the aggression on Gaza to complete their data by registering on its website, to complete all data through its records.

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    Dr. Marwan Asmar holds a PhD from Leeds University and is a freelance writer specializing on the Middle East. He has worked as a journalist since the early 1990s in Jordan and the Gulf countries, and been widely published, including at Albawaba, Gulf News, Al Ghad, World Press Review and others.

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