{"id":202430,"date":"2023-12-30T15:03:06","date_gmt":"2023-12-30T19:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=202430"},"modified":"2023-12-30T15:03:06","modified_gmt":"2023-12-30T19:03:06","slug":"death-toll-of-israeli-strikes-in-gaza-exceeds-21300","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=202430","title":{"rendered":"<h1>Death toll of Israeli strikes in Gaza exceeds 21,300<\/h1>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"column\">\n<div class=\"news-header\">\n<h3 class=\"news-header__lead\">Ashraf al-Qudra noted that over 1.9 million internally displaced people in the Palestinian enclave &#8211; 50% of them being children &#8211; suffer from shortage of drinking water, food and medicine<\/h3>\n<p>TASS<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text-content\">\n<div class=\"text-block\">\n<p>CAIRO, December 28. \/TASS\/. The death toll of Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip has exceeded 21,300, with over 55,600 residents injured, the Palestinian Health Ministry Spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra announced.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The death toll of the Israeli aggression since October 7 has increased to 21,320, with 55,603 injured,&#8221; the spokesman said on the Ministry\u2019s Telegram channel.<\/p>\n<p>He also noted that over 1.9 million internally displaced people in the Palestinian enclave &#8211; 50% of them being children &#8211; suffer from shortage of drinking water, food and medicine.<\/p>\n<p>The situation in the Middle East sharply escalated following an incursion of Hamas militants from the Gaza Strip into Israel on October 7. Hamas has cast the attack as a response to Israeli actions against the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. Israel has declared a complete siege of the Gaza Strip and started a military operation there. Israel also strikes parts of Lebanon and Syria in retaliation for bombardments originating from these countries. Clashes are also taking place in the West Bank.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/tass.com\/world\/1727557\">https:\/\/tass.com\/world\/1727557<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=202430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=202430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=202430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=202430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}