“BRING THEM ALL BACK”
The Oct 7 attack on southern Israel resulted in the deaths of 1,199 people, most of them civilians, according to an AFP tally based on Israeli official figures.
Israel’s retaliatory military campaign has killed 40,223 Palestinians in Gaza, according to the Hamas-run territory’s health ministry, which does not give details of civilian and militant deaths. The UN rights office says most dead are women and children.
Palestinian militants also seized 251 hostages, of whom 105 remain in Gaza including 34 the military says are dead.
The military’s latest evacuation orders, including for parts of central and southern Gaza previously designated “safe” by Israel, affect some 150,000 displaced Palestinians who had sought shelter there, the United Nations’ humanitarian agency OCHA said.
“Today’s orders have also made three water wells … inaccessible. Those wells serve tens of thousands of people,” it said.
A UN official said “death seems to be the only certainty” for Gaza’s 2.4 million people, with no way to escape Israel’s bombardment.
“Absolutely nowhere is safe,” Louise Wateridge, a spokeswoman for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), told AFP from Gaza.
