The number of deaths and injuries in the Israeli attack on Gaza reaches 28,858 dead and 68,677 wounded.

The death toll in the Israeli attack on Gaza, which began 135 days ago, has reached 28,858 people, according to the Health Ministry, which controls the political arm of Hamas. In addition to the deaths, 68,677 infections were recorded.

During the past 24 hours, 83 people died and 125 others were injured. The ministry stated that “the Israeli occupation committed nine massacres against families in the Gaza Strip.” The Palestinian Wafa Agency reported that the bodies of ten citizens were recovered from Gaza City (north) and Khan Yunis (south).

Medical sources reported by the agency indicated that the bodies of five members of one family were recovered from under the rubble of their home in Gaza, where six other bodies remain. Five more bodies were recovered from under the rubble of a house bombed by the occupation in the town of Al-Qarara, northeast of Khan Yunis. These new data became known just one day after the UN International Court of Justice demanded that Israel implement “immediately and effectively” the precautionary measures issued on January 26 to prevent genocide in the Gaza Strip.

However, the ICJ does not consider it necessary to require Israel to take additional measures, as requested by South Africa in relation to the situation in Rafah, at the southern end of Gaza, where 1.4 million people, most of whom are displaced, are currently concentrated.

Human nightmare

In its decision sent yesterday to South Africa and Israel, the International Court noted that recent events in the Gaza Strip, and Rafah in particular, “would significantly increase what is already a humanitarian nightmare with incalculable regional consequences,” as the UN Secretary-General stated. United Nations António Guterres, on February 7, before the United Nations General Assembly. “This serious situation requires the immediate and effective implementation of the interim measures referred to by the Court in its order of 26 January 2024,” the International Court of Justice said in a letter to the parties.