China News Service, Beijing, December 23 Comprehensive news: More than 20,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip at 22** local timeMore than 60,000 people were injured, of whom about seven were women and children. According to the Associated Press, the more than 20,000 dead are close to 1 percent of the population of the Gaza Strip before the conflict, and 85 percent of the population is now displaced.
Wafa reported that the largest cities in the southern Gaza Strip, Khan Younis, Jabaliya refugee camp, and Nuserrat refugee camps were again attacked by Israeli air strikes on the evening of the 22nd, and more than 100 dead people have been counted in the three areasA large number of bodies are also buried in the rubble of the Jabaliya refugee camp, the exact number of which cannot be confirmed.
The United Nations Security Council passed a resolution on the 22nd local time, calling for the "immediate, safe and unhindered" direct and large-scale delivery of humanitarian aid to Palestinian civilians throughout the Gaza Strip. The United Nations Children** released data on the same day that all children under the age of 5 in the Gaza Strip (about 3350,000 people) are at risk of death from severe malnutrition, about 1550,000 pregnant and lactating women, more than 13The nutritional status of 50,000 children under the age of 2 is also a cause for concern. More than 1.2 million people lack food.
CNN reported that the Israel Defense Forces announced on the 22nd that they had destroyed an authentic network of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in the southern Gaza Strip. The Israeli army said it used 13 tons of explosives to destroy more than 30 tunnel shafts, destroying a large number of Hamas's construction facilities and equipment in the process, and eliminating many armed men.
CNN, citing analysts, said that Israel used a lot of 2,000 pounds (1 pound is about 0.) in the early days of this round of conflict45 kg) bombs bombed the Gaza Strip;By comparison, the largest bomb ever used by the U.S. military in fighting the extremist group Islamic State in Mosul, Iraq, was 500 pounds. The use of 2,000-pound bombs in a densely populated area like the Gaza Strip for air strikes "has not been seen since the Vietnam War," the report said. (ENDS).
*: China News Network.