Khalil Al-Daqran, spokesperson for the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip, has been quoted by Al Jazeera Arabic as saying that 900 Palestinians have also been injured since Tuesday.

Many of those wounded in the Israeli massacre died due to the impossibility of providing urgent medical care due to the shortage of basic equipment and medicines, he added.

About 70 per cent of those injured are children and women, and most of their injuries are serious, Al-Daqran said.