APAwire - APA wire CLIENTS ONLY, Deir el-Balah- 17 August 2024. Palestinians mourn their relatives, killed in an Israeli strike, at the Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip. According to the Palestinian Civil Defense, over 15 Palestinians were killed in a nighttime Israeli airstrike in Al-Zawayda, with a dozen more reported missing under the debris of a destroyed building. Since militants from Hamas launched an attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, and the subsequent Israeli operations in Gaza and the West Bank, more than 40,000 Palestinians and over 1,455 Israelis have died, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health and the Israel Defense Forces.