The Israeli army bombarded the central part of the southern Gaza Strip overnightwhere as announced killed dozens “terrorists”with the Hamas authorities to announce that dozens of people died overnightwhile the conflict between Israel and the Islamist Palestinian movement is approaching its 100-day mark.

AFP journalist heard heavy artillery fire among Rafain the southern part of the Palestinian enclave, and Khan Younes, the major city in the south, during the night that passed, during which the strikes were however less than on other days.

According with the Hamas Health Ministrythere are “more than 59 dead and dozens of wounded were taken to hospitals after the attacks that took place” at night “in several sectors”. In a more recent announcement today, the enclave’s health ministry said at least 23,708 Palestinians have been killed and 60,005 wounded in Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip since October 7. About 151 Palestinians were killed and 248 wounded in the past 24 hours, the ministry added.

“Dozens of terrorists” were killed in Khan Younes and Maghazi in the central sector, “among them officers of the Nukhba” (lit.: “elite” in Arabic) unit, the Israeli military said, also announcing a drone strike in Burez, also in the central part of the southern Gaza Strip.

In Khan Younes, mainly “an officer of the Nuqhba unit, who participated in the massacre of October 7” was killed.according to the Israeli military.

At Najer Hospital in Rafah, a young man, who did not give his name, showed AFPTV corpses in plastic tarps. “Women are widowed, children are orphaned. Does anyone care about us? Why is the whole world silent?” he said.

More than 23,000 Palestinians have been killed and about 60,000 injured in Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip since October 7, according to the enclave’s health ministry.

At an average of 250 deaths per day, according to these calculations, the average death toll of this war is “significantly higher” than “any other recent conflict,” “in Syria (96.5 deaths per day), Sudan (51, 6), Iraq (50.8), Ukraine (43.9), Afghanistan (23.8) and Yemen (15.8),” Oxfam complained.

In a statement, the non-governmental organization reveals that the already disastrous situation of the 2.4 million inhabitants was further worsened by the drop in temperatures.

The war was sparked on October 7 by the unprecedented and bloody attacks by Hamas militants, which killed an estimated 1,140 people, mostly civilians, in southern Israel.