According to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS), at least four Palestinian medics were killed on Wednesday, October 11, by Israeli military airstrikes. 

“Another PRCS paramedic was killed in Gaza, increasing the number to four,” The PRCS said in a statement. “A PRCS ambulance was directly targeted east of the Gaza Strip earlier today, killing Hatem Awad, another martyr of humanitarian duty. Stop war crimes. Hold Israeli occupation authorities accountable.”

Ahmad Dahman, Khalil Al-Sharif and Yusri Al-Masri were the other three PRCS medics killed in earlier airstrikes on Wednesday. 

The latest killings are part of the continuing vicious Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip. Gaza’s death toll alone is now at least 1,055 dead, with at least another 5,184 Palestinians injured. Both figures are expected to rise continually. 

The U.N. Relief Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) also published a statement through social media stating that at least nine of their staff have been killed by Israeli military forces since Hamas’ Operation Al-Aqsa flood was launched. The Israeli government responded with a slaughtering campaign on Palestinians besieged throughout Gaza. 

“The protection of civilians is paramount, including in times of conflict. They should be protected in accordance with the laws of war,” the statement read. 

Also, there have now been at least seven Palestinian journalists killed in Gaza by Israeli forces. The Israeli government has cut off all electricity, food, water and fuel supply going into Gaza, along with bombing the Rafah crossing into Egypt from Gaza twice, preventing Palestinians from evacuating and much-needed humanitarian aid from Egypt from crossing into Gaza. 

According to the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza, Palestinians are being forced to ration fuel. Gaza’s Energy Authority told Al-Jazeera that the Gaza Strip’s only power plant has been completely depleted. 

The Authority released a statement saying that the Israeli government’s bombardments and actions are threatening “to plunge the Strip into complete darkness and make it impossible to continue providing all basic life services, all of which depend on electricity, and it will not be possible to operate them properly with generators in light of the prevention of fuel supplies.”

The statement labeled the Israeli government’s bombing campaign “the dirtiest crime of collective punishment against defenseless civilians in modern history.”