The Palestinian Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip said in a statement on Saturday: "56 martyrs (including 7 recovered) and 108 wounded arrived at hospitals in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours."
She pointed out that "the death toll and the number of wounded since March 18 have reached 2,111 martyrs and 5,483 wounded."
It also announced that "the death toll from the Israeli aggression has risen to 51,495 martyrs and 117,524 wounded since October 7, 2023," noting that "a number of victims are still under the rubble and on the roads, and ambulance and civil defense crews are unable to reach them."
Martyrs in the bombing of buildings and tents
Local sources reported that 10 Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a house in the Sabra neighborhood, south of Gaza City. The Civil Defense Authority said in a statement that "a large number of missing persons are still under the rubble of the house."
Three Palestinians were killed and others injured in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a house in the Al-Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City, early this morning.
Palestinian sources said that "the occupation forces carried out, at dawn on Saturday, demolition operations against buildings in the eastern areas of Gaza City, coinciding with the occupation army's incursion into a number of eastern neighborhoods, such as Shuja'iyya and al-Tuffah."
Israeli artillery shelled the al-Tuffah neighborhood east of Gaza City, and six people were injured when the Israeli navy shelled a Palestinian fishing boat off the town of al-Zawayda in the central Gaza Strip. One person was also killed when an Israeli drone shelled a house in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.
In the northern Gaza Strip, an Israeli drone bombed the vicinity of the Education Roundabout, killing two Palestinians.
In the southern Gaza Strip, a Palestinian died of wounds sustained in an Israeli attack on a house in Khan Yunis on Friday evening.
Several Palestinians were injured in a shelling that targeted a tent housing displaced persons in the Al-Mawasi area, west of Khan Yunis. Three Palestinians were also killed in an Israeli drone strike on the Al-Mawasi area.
The humanitarian situation is worsening
Meanwhile, the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip is deteriorating further, as the bombing and blockade continue.
"We have reached a critical and bleak moment in Gaza," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a post on the X platform on Friday evening.
"The World Food Programme's food supplies inside the Gaza Strip have run out, and although there is enough food in relief corridors to feed one million people, it is not reaching those in need," Ghebreyesus explained.
On Friday, the United Nations World Food Programme announced that its food stocks in Gaza had been "completely depleted" due to the lack of aid entering the Strip for seven weeks due to the Israeli closure of the crossings.
The program said that "more than 116,000 metric tons of food aid, enough to feed one million people for four months, are ready to enter Gaza as soon as the crossings open."
"The same applies to medical supplies, which are running out, while 16 WHO trucks are waiting to enter the Strip," Ghebreyesus explained, stressing that "the blockade on aid, on which lives depend, must end."
For its part, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) reported via the X platform on Saturday that the war on Gaza is leading to a massive accumulation of waste, which contributes to the spread of disease.
She added that she continues to provide solid waste collection and transportation services wherever possible, noting that her teams have cleaned 150 sewage outlets serving more than 23,000 displaced people.
Talks in Cairo
Politically, Hamas said in a statement on Saturday that a leadership delegation from the movement "has just begun meetings with Egyptian officials to discuss Hamas's vision for a ceasefire and an end to the war and a prisoner exchange, based on a comprehensive deal that includes full withdrawal and reconstruction."
The movement explained that this meeting came hours after "the arrival of a Hamas leadership delegation headed by Mohammed Darwish, head of its leadership council, and the remaining council members: Khaled Meshaal, Khalil al-Hayya, Zaher Jabarin, and Nizar Awadallah, in Cairo at dawn on Saturday."
In early March, the first phase of a ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement between Hamas and Israel, which took effect on January 19, 2025, concluded with Egyptian-Qatari mediation and US support.
While Hamas has adhered to the terms of the first phase, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court, has reneged on the start of the second phase in deference to extremists in his ruling coalition, according to Hebrew media.
Since March 18, Israel has resumed its genocidal crimes by launching violent, large-scale airstrikes, most of which targeted civilians, including homes and tents housing displaced persons.
