Since the beginning of the aggression against the Gaza Strip on 7 October, the Israeli occupation has committed 371 massacres against Palestinian families, whose homes were bombed above the heads of their residents without prior warning or notice, resulting in 1,981 victims, mostly children and women, said the government media office in Gaza said yesterday.

According to the Government Media Office, the number of Palestinians killed in each massacre varies.

Some of these families have been completely wiped out from the civil registry, as happened with Shihab, Al-Najjar, Al-Muqaranah, Nawfal and Al-Dallu families, it added.

The office explained in a press statement that the large number of massacres in this short period of time shows the brutality and criminality of the Israeli occupation and the intensity of the bombing that targeted entire residential neighbourhoods. It also reveals the failure of the international community, which remained silent in the face of these massacres against defenceless, innocent civilians.

Since October 7, more than 1,030 Palestinian children in Gaza have been killed by Israeli forces, or about one child every 15 minutes, and more than one-third of the total death toll. Many more are still missing under the rubble of buildings destroyed by Israeli airstrikes and shelling.