As the war approaches its 15th month, Palestinians are suffering “unbearable” losses: 52 dead were admitted to hospitals in the past day alone.
Israel's war on Gaza has now killed more than 45,000 people, the health ministry confirmed in the besieged and battered Palestinian enclave.
The revised death toll, which includes 17,000 children, was announced by officials on Monday, marking another grim milestone in the 14-month war.
This does not include the 11,000 missing Palestinians believed to be trapped under the rubble.
“The scale of the loss of life in Gaza is unbearable for the Palestinians who have been living through this war for more than 14 months,” Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary said.
“Every single aspect of life, including schools, shelters and hospitals, was attacked by the Israeli forces,” said Khoudary, reporting from Deir el-Balah in central Gaza.
Khoudary said the situation was particularly distressing in the north of the Gaza Strip, which was under even greater siege.
“Constant shelling and airstrikes continue – quadcopters chasing and killing Palestinians on the streets,” she said, adding that rescuers were unable to reach the people.
“We saw a lot of Palestinians on the ground and no one could reach them,” she said, referring to a massacre at the Khalil Oweida school in Beit Hanoon on Sunday.
Monday morning was also “bloody,” Al Jazeera's Tareq Abu Azzoum said, reporting from the center of the Gaza Strip, as explosions were heard as the Israeli military attacked civilians in the nearby Nuseirat refugee camp.
Palestinian health authorities reported that 52 dead had arrived in hospitals across the bombed Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours.
According to medics, 10 of the arrivals – including two parents and their two children – were killed in an overnight Israeli attack on a house in the eastern Shujayea neighborhood of Gaza City.
A separate attack on the Ahmad Bin Abdul Aziz School in the southern city of Khan Younis killed at least 20 displaced Palestinians on Sunday.
The Israeli military claimed it carried out “a precise attack” on Hamas members operating on school grounds, but provided no evidence.
Mourners gathered on Monday for the funeral of Al Jazeera television journalist Ahmed al-Louh, who was killed the previous day along with five Palestinian civil defense workers in an attack on the Nuseirat refugee camp.
The total death toll now stands at about 2 percent of Gaza's prewar population, which numbered about 2.3 million people.
