Sun 23 March 2025:
The Health Ministry in Gaza says at least 41 people have been confirmed killed and 61 wounded in Israeli attacks in the last 24 hours.
These casualties bring the total number of Palestinians killed since the war began 17 months ago to 50,021, with 113,274 wounded, said the ministry.
Numerous victims are still trapped under the wreckage where rescuers cannot reach them, it added.
This is a very grim, horrifying milestone. People who had dreams, ambitions and life to look forward to are now gone.
For the record, the 50,000 figure is only a conservative estimate. These are only the people who have been registered at health facilities across the Gaza Strip. There are so many others buried without being registered or who have gone missing, trapped under piles of rubble.
Recent Israeli attacks have caused further civilian casualties, trapping more people under the concrete debris of collapsed buildings.
Of the more than 50,000 killed, 17,000 are children. A whole generation has been wiped out. These children would have affected how their society would have progressed – politically, economically and intellectually.
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Israel’s public ‘not interested’ in deaths in Gaza
Ori Goldberg, an Israeli political commentator, says Israelis will have little sympathy at the news that Gaza’s death toll has surpassed 50,000 during the war.
“My personal response would be anger, sadness, and shock. This is not likely to resonate because when the number was 45,000 [dead] the figures were said to be bogus, augmented by Hamas,” Goldberg told Al Jazeera.
“Generally, the Israeli public is not interested in claiming responsibility for Palestinian deaths in Gaza. It isn’t really interested in claiming responsibility for Israeli deaths in Gaza.”
He said the media in Israel show images of the carnage and suffering in the Strip, but “this has gone on so long, after a while, the mind is numbed”.
Since the beginning of the war, the Israeli public has said “every death in Gaza is on Hamas, for a variety of reasons”, Goldberg added.
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