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The Gaza Government Media Office has released a detailed report providing a grim insight into Israel's ongoing genocidal campaign in Gaza and the humanitarian disaster unfolding in the besiged territory.

Here are some of the key figures:

• 1,413 Palestinian families wiped out, with 5,455 family members killed
• 17,818 children killed in Israeli attacks
• 12,287 women killed in Israeli strikes
• 238 newborns and 853 infants killed
• 35,060 children now living without one or both parents
• 44 people dead due to malnutrition and starvation
• Six deaths from extreme cold in displacement tents, including five babies
• 1,068 medical staff and 94 Civil Defence personnel killed
• 520 bodies retrieved from seven mass graves inside hospitals
• 216 shelter and displacement centres targeted

At least nine Palestinians have been killed and more than 15 others wounded, including women and children, in an Israeli strike near the Nuseirat refugee camp, according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa.

The shelling targeted an area northwest of the camp, situated in the central Gaza Strip. The attack has added to the growing civilian toll in the enclave as Israel continues its military onslaught.

An Israeli soldier was killed during clashes with Palestinian resistance fighters in the northern Gaza Strip, the Israeli army said on Sunday.

This latest casualty brings the total number of Israeli soldiers killed to 822 since 7 October 2023.

An Israeli air strike near Syria’s capital, Damascus, has killed 11 people, according to a war monitor, as Israel continues its military operations targeting Syrian infrastructure.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that the attack, which occurred on Sunday, struck a weapons depot near Adra, an industrial town northeast of Damascus.

While the air strike was aimed at military assets, most of those killed were civilians, the group stated.

Conflicting accounts have emerged regarding the death toll. Beirut-based Al-Mayadeen TV reported that six people lost their lives in the attack. Meanwhile, the Israeli military has not commented on the strike.

Around five rockets were launched into southern Israel from the Gaza Strip on Sunday. 

Two of the rockets were intercepted, according to the Israeli military, while the remainder fell into open areas near Sderot. 

Israeli forces did not report any casualties or damage caused. 

Medical sources have reported that Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip since early Sunday have claimed the lives of 30 Palestinians, with half of the casualties occurring in the northern part of the besiged enclave, Al Jazera Arabic reported.

The Israeli military announced on Sunday that it would not allow the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza to resume operations following a raid by Israeli forces.

On Friday, Israeli forces stormed the hospital and forcibly emptied it of patients and medical staff, arresting over 240 people, including the hospital’s director, Dr  Hussam Abu Safiyeh, who remains under Israeli arrest.

Several medical staff were burned alive in fires set off during Israel's raid, and patients and medics were stripped down before being forced out of the hospital on foot.

All activities will reportedly be transferred to the nearby Indonesian Hospital, the Israeli military stated, which has effectively become the only major functioning hospital north of Gaza City.

At least 10 people were killed by an Israeli drone strike on the Syrian town of Adra, located northeast of Damascus, on Sunday, Al Jazeera is reporting, citing military sources. 

The strike reportedly targeted a government weapons depot. 

Israeli forces wounded a Palestinian man on Sunday near the separation wall south of Qalqilya in the occupied West Bank.

Tthe man was shot in the foot with live ammunition, according to the Wafa news agency, citing local sources.

Good afternoon Middle East Eye readers,

It is shortly after 15:30 in Gaza. Here is what has been happening today so far: 

- Gaza’s death toll rose to 45,514 Palestinians killed in Gaza since the war began last October.

- Egyptian sources have told Al-Araby TV that ceasefire talks are on the verge of collapsing due to Israeli intransigence.

- Juma, a newborn Palestinian baby who was 30 days old, died in Gaza from hypothermia on Sunday, making him the fifth newborn baby to die from hypothermia in Gaza.

- Gaza Civil Defence reported that Israeli forces killed at least seven people after they attacked the upper floor of the al-Wafaa hospital in Gaza city on Sunday.

- Israeli forces carrying out a weeks-long offensive in northern Gaza ordered any residents remaining in Beit Hanoun to quit the town on Sunday, pointing to Palestinian militant rocket fire from the area, residents said.

Egyptian sources have told Al-Araby TV that ceasefire talks are on the verge of collapsing due to Israeli intransigence. 

The Doha-based outlet said Egypt and Qatar were attempting to make the deal work but are struggling due to Israel.

The sources said the political leadership in Israel was hindering the efforts made by their security officials to strike a deal, which may fail if the Israeli approach doesn't change. 

Israeli forces carrying out a weeks-long offensive in northern Gaza ordered any residents remaining in Beit Hanoun to quit the town on Sunday, pointing to Palestinian militant rocket fire from the area, residents said.

The instruction to residents to leave caused a new wave of displacement, although it was not immediately clear how many people were affected, the residents said.

Israel says its almost three-month-old campaign in northern Gaza is aimed at Hamas militants and preventing them from regrouping. Its instructions to civilians to evacuate are meant to keep them out of harm's way, the military says.

Palestinian and United Nations officials say no place is safe in Gaza and that evacuations worsen humanitarian conditions of the population.

Much of the area around the northern towns of Beit Hanoun, Jabalia and Beit Lahiya has been cleared of people and razed, fuelling speculation that Israel intends to keep the area as a closed buffer zone after the fighting in Gaza ends.

Reporting by Reuters

The Israeli military said on Sunday that Hamas militants were the targets of a strike on Gaza City's Al Wafa hospital, which the Palestinian civil defence said had killed seven people.

The Israeli military said in a statement that the building struck no longer functioned as a hospital.

Reported by Reuters. 

Israeli forces have killed at least 45,514 Palestinians in Gaza since the war began last October. 

Latest Health Ministry figures on Sunday showed that 108,189 Palestinians had been wounded by Israel's military offensive against Gaza. 

Witnesses in a new report said Israeli forces sexually assaulted Palestinian women and executed unarmed civilians during the Friday raid on Gaza's Kamal Adwan Hospital.

Testimony given to the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor documented violence against women, including stripping off their clothes, touching them under the threat of violence, beating them and hurling sexual insults against them. 

In one incident, a soldier tore the clothes of a woman, exposing her chest, after she refused to remove her hijab, or headscarf. 

Recalling a different incident, an unnamed woman said: “A soldier forced a nurse to take off her trousers, then placed his hand on her. When she tried to resist, he struck her hard across the face, causing her nose to bleed.” 

Another eyewitness said a soldier told a woman: “Take it off, or we’ll force it off you.”

A hospital staff member told the Monitor: “The soldiers ordered us to remove our hijabs, but we refused. They then turned to the girls under 20 years old and demanded they remove their hijabs, but they also refused.

"The soldiers decided to punish us by taking two women at a time and forcing them to lift their clothes and lower their trousers under threats and coercion.”

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