STORY: Palestinian death toll in Gaza rises to 30,631: ministry
SHOOTING TIME: March 5, 2024
DATELINE: March 6, 2024
LENGTH: 0:00:46
LOCATION: GAZA, Palestine
CATEGORY: POLITICS/MILITARY

SHOTLIST:
1. various of the northern Gaza

STORYLINE:

The Palestinian death toll in the Gaza Strip from ongoing Israeli attacks has risen to 30,631, the Hamas-run Health Ministry said on Tuesday.
   
In the press statement sent to Xinhua, the ministry said that the Israeli army killed 97 and wounded 123 others during the past 24 hours, bringing the total death toll to 30,631 and injuries to 72,043.
   
The statement noted that some victims remained under the rubble amid heavy bombardment and a lack of civil defense and ambulance crews.
   
The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has warned of the deepening of the humanitarian crisis in the coastal enclave as a result of the continuation of the conflict.
   
In a statement sent to Xinhua, it accused Israel of "escalating the episodes of genocidal war at a worse pace due to the population density it has created in the center and south of the Gaza Strip, where the number of displaced Palestinians is approximately 1.7 million. Palestinians who do not know where to go or are displaced as a result of the continuous bombing that affects everything and in the absence of any safe place there."
   
Israel has been launching a large-scale offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip to retaliate against a Hamas rampage through the southern Israeli border on Oct. 7, 2023, during which about 1,200 people were killed and more than 200 taken hostages.

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Gaza, Palestine.
(XHTV)