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Gaza: Over 16,200 dead as Israel assaults Khan Younis

Gaza: Over 16,200 dead as Israel intensifies assault on Khan Younis
MENA
22 min read
05 December, 2023
As the Israeli military has launches new attacks in the southern Gaza Strip, the death toll in the conflict has risen to over 16.200.

The death toll on Israel's war on Gaza has risen to more than 16,200, including over 7000 children, according to Gaza's ministry of health.

This comes as Israel intensifies its assault on Gaza's soth, where the Israeli military has committed what is being called a massacre in Khan Younis, hitting a school sheltering displaced people and killing at least 30 people. 

Israeli tanks have also besieged the Kamal Adwan hospital, one of the last functioning hospitals in the north of the besieged Palestinian territory.

The assault on Khan Younis, southern Gaza's main city, suggest a new and bloody phase of Israel's war. Israel had previously ordered civilians in the northern part of the Gaza Strip to flee to the south of the territory but is now committing large scale attacks on them there.

Functioning ambulances and civilian cars were racing into the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis throughout the night, carrying injured people into the only functioning hospital in the city which was home to more than 400,000 Palestinians before the war.

Witnesses reported aggressive military offences, including the use of tank shells and bulldozers in civilian areas.

The UN's humanitarian coordinator for the Palestinian territories, Lynn Hastings, said on Monday that "an even more hellish scenario" looms in Gaza where the delivery of humanitarian aid might come to a complete halt.

"The conditions required to deliver aid to the people of Gaza do not exist."