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The death toll in Gaza has risen to 47,161 martyrs since the start of the Israeli aggression.

Palestinian medical sources announced today, Wednesday, that the death toll in the Gaza Strip had risen to 47,161 martyrs, the majority of whom were children and women, since the start of the Israeli occupation aggression on October 7, 2023.

The sources added – as stated Palestinian News Agency (WAFA) – The death toll has risen to 111,166 wounded since the start of the aggression, while Thousands of victims are still under the rubble and on the roads, and ambulance and civil defense crews are still unable to reach them.

She indicated that 54 martyrs arrived at hospitals in the Gaza Strip, including 53 martyrs whose bodies were recovered, and a citizen died from his injury, in addition to 19 casualties arrived at hospitals, as a result of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip during the past 24 hours.

In this context, 5 citizens were injured. Wounded today, and others fainted as a result of an attack by settlers on residents in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron.

Activist Osama Makhamreh told WAFA that dozens of settlers attacked residents in Khirbet Aqawawis. In Musafer Yatta, they beat them and sprayed gas on their faces, resulting in head injuries, fractures and bruises. They were transported by ambulance crews to a hospital to receive treatment.

He pointed out that a number of other residents fainted as a result of the settlers’ spraying. They were subjected to poisonous pepper gas, and were treated in the field, adding that the settlers have recently escalated their attacks on citizens in Masafer Yatta, and they now pose a threat. Dangerous to their lives because of its bloody nature, as they attack and assault on a daily and continuous basis the people, their homes, and sheep pens, and prevent them by force of arms from reaching the fields and pastures, in an attempt to forcibly displace them from the area in favor of settlement expansion. The occupation forces also arrested a young man from the city of Jericho, seized a truck, and continued their tight siege of the city.

Wafa Agency quoted eyewitnesses as saying that the occupation forces stormed the city of Jericho from the direction of Al-Quds Street and disrupted traffic, where a fire broke out. Confrontations during which the occupation forces fired live bullets and bombs, pursued the young men and arrested one of them.

She added that the occupation forces seized A citizen’s truck in the “Al-Mandarat” area. South of Jericho, indicating that the occupation forces are continuing their siege of the city of Jericho with their military checkpoints set up at the four entrances, searching hundreds of vehicles, and checking their occupants’ ID cards.

The Governor of Jericho and the Jordan Valley, Hussein Hamayel, explained that the governorate has suffered heavy economic losses due to the measures taken. The occupation, especially the agricultural sector, which suffered an unprecedented setback, after the prices of agricultural crops fell by 90%, and the tourism sector, which suffered losses. Big.

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