GAZA (Palestine Foundation Information Center) Gaza’s Government Media Office (GMO) said that over 322 Palestinians were killed and missing in a matter of five hours across the Gaza Strip as Israel resumed its genocide, breaking the ceasefire that lasted nearly two months.
In a statement, the GMO said entire families were among the victims, who were killed together in the Israeli attacks, noting that the ambulances and civil defense teams are unable to bring all victims to hospitals.
“These brutal massacres committed by the Israeli occupation army reaffirm that this occupation only understands the language of killing, destruction and genocide,” said the Office.
The attacks come as Israel also continues to blockade the enclave for a third week, in what the GMO said is a “war tactic to break the will of our Palestinian people”.
Nevertheless, the people of Gaza “will not be intimidated by these crimes and will continue their steadfastness and legitimate struggle until the Israeli occupation is removed from our land,” it said.
The GMO called on the international community, including the UN, rights groups and aid organizations, to take immediate action to oppose Israel’s “crimes” and hold Israeli leaders accountable. “The world cannot continue to stand idle by,” it said.
Israeli attacks have killed more than 48,500 Palestinians since October 2023, most of them women and children, and left Gaza in ruins.
The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants in November last year for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Army Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.
Israel also faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its war on the enclave.
