The World Health Organisation said there were an estimated 1000 people still buried after the Israeli bombardment of Gaza, as calls for a ceasefire intensified.
| A World Health Organisation official said on Friday the agency had received estimates that some 1000 unidentified bodies are still buried under“We also get these estimates that there are still 1000 plus people under the rubble which have not been identified yet,” Richard Peeperkorn, WHO Representative for the occupied Palestinian territory, said in response to a question about the death toll in Gaza. He did not specify the source.
US warplanes, meanwhile, struck targets in eastern Syria that the Pentagon said were linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard after a string of attacks on American forces, and two mysterious objects hit towns in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, adding to the already high tensions fuelled by the three-week-old Gaza war.More than 1400 people in Israel, mostly civilians, were slain during the initial Hamas attack on October 7, according to the Israeli government.
The humanitarian crisis sparked by the war and the Israeli siege has sparked protests across the region, and more demonstrations were expected later Friday after weekly Muslim prayers.The military said ground forces raided inside Gaza, striking dozens of militant targets over the past 24 hours. It said aircraft and artillery bombed targets in Shijaiyah, a neighborhood on Gaza City’s outskirts that was the scene of an urban battle in the 2014 Gaza war.
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