The blood toll rises in Gaza.. More than 70,000 martyrs and winter threats besiege the survivors

Official data released by the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip on Monday revealed a shocking toll of casualties after two years since the outbreak of military confrontations in October 2023, with the number of martyrs reaching 70,937, while the number of injured exceeded 171,192.

These figures reflect the immense scale of the humanitarian catastrophe that affected all aspects of life, amid medical incapacity and collapse in the relief system due to continuous bombardment and the imposed siege.

The roots of this tragedy go back to the comprehensive war launched by the Israeli army, the repercussions of which have not stopped even after the announcement of a fragile truce last October.

Despite international agreements to cease fire, field violations have claimed the lives of 405 Palestinians in the last month alone, confirming the occupation's disregard for its legal commitments and placing the region at risk of complete collapse of diplomatic understandings.

On the ground, hospitals received 12 bodies in the last 48 hours, some of whom died in recent raids, while others were extracted from under the rubble of demolished buildings. With the entry of weather depressions, a new danger emerged in the form of the collapse of cracked shelters that residents resorted to due to lack of shelter, where 15 deaths were recorded as a result of dilapidated ceilings falling on their occupants, after preventing the supply of building materials or mobile homes.

Municipalities in the south of the sector are struggling to remain operational; Mayor of Khan Yunis, Alaeddin al-Batta, confirmed that reducing fuel supplies paralyzed the movement of machinery responsible for rubble removal.

Al-Batta indicated that current efforts rely on limited contributions from local associations, amid destruction that affected 90% of the infrastructure, and UN estimates putting the cost of reconstruction at $70 billion, figures that remain ink on paper unless the suffocating siege is broken.