Tragedy Strikes: 72 Lives Lost in Gaza’s Latest Airstrikes 

United States: In the past day, at least 72 people have died in Israeli operations in Gaza, according to hospital officials. They also mentioned that it’s hard to get complete information from the northern part of Gaza, so the number of casualties might be even higher. 

Hospital records for the southern Gaza Strip showed 38 people killed in airstrikes in Khan Younis early on Friday, including at least 13 children from the same family. In the morgue of the nearby European hospital they were buried, relatives cradling their bruised and broken bodies before burial, sometimes several children to a shroud. 

As reported by The Guardian.com, Other survivors went searching for the belongings like clothes and identification cards in the debris of the Manara neighbourhood after the strike. Saleh al-Farra, 44, who lost his 17 years old brother and 15 years old sister in the attack said the family attempted to move to the centre of the building in order to be safer before a direct hit on the building caused structure to fold and he fainted. 

Then I screamed until my brother and father came and tried to save us. Nobody knew anything about anybody; I didn’t know anything about anyone,” he said to the Associated Press. 

Israel military says it killed Palestinian gunmen in air and ground attack in the area. 

In northern Gaza, where on 6 October Israel began a heavy assault that detractors contend is aimed at driving the remaining civilians out, it remains uncertain, due to the lack of internet and phone connections, what occurred in a posted Israeli airstrike on a block of houses in the Jabaliya refugee camp. 

The UN human rights chief, Volker Türk in a statement on Friday said he felt the ‘worst time’ of the war has arrived in northern Gaza, ‘where the Israeli military is effectively targeting an entire population to bombing, siege and risk of starvation’. 

He said of the offensive: “Inconceivably, the situation is worsening almost on a daily basis … This might put us in what might look like atrocity crimes, in this case possibly even crimes against humanity.