This was stated in the "Daily Statistical Report on the Number of Martyrs and Injured as a Result of the Israeli Aggression on the Gaza Strip," issued by the Ministry of Health in Gaza.
The ministry said, "67 martyrs, including 5 who were recovered, and 184 injured arrived at hospitals in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours." It noted that "these daily statistics do not include hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip due to the difficulty of accessing them" as a result of the Israeli aggression and its fragmentation of the Strip.
According to the ministry, "the death toll and injuries since March 18, 2025, has reached 3,986 martyrs and 11,451 injured."
Thus, the ministry announced that "the death toll from the Israeli aggression has risen to 54,249 martyrs and 123,492 wounded since October 7, 2023," noting that "a number of victims remain under the rubble and on the roads, and ambulance and civil defense crews are unable to reach them."
Dozens of martyrs
In the same context, the Israeli occupation army has killed at least 62 Palestinians since dawn on Thursday, as a result of bombing operations targeting civilians across the Gaza Strip, according to medical sources and eyewitnesses.
A medical source at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah (central Gaza Strip) reported that "24 Palestinians, including children and women, were killed and others were injured in an Israeli bombing of the Al-Qarnawi family home in the Al-Bureij camp" in the central Gaza Strip.
A Palestinian was killed and others were injured when an Israeli aircraft bombed a tent housing displaced persons in the al-Salqawi area, in the al-Baraka area, south of Deir al-Balah, according to eyewitnesses. Medical sources and eyewitnesses said that an Israeli drone bombed a gathering of civilians at the al-Saraya intersection in central Gaza City, killing eight Palestinians.
Meanwhile, "the bodies of seven martyrs, including a child, arrived at Al-Shifa Hospital after an Israeli drone targeted a gathering of civilians near the Abu Iskandar bakery north of Gaza City," according to medical sources. Medical sources reported that "an Israeli drone targeted a gathering of citizens in the Shuja'iyya neighborhood east of the city, resulting in the martyrdom of three and the injury of others."
In the northern Gaza Strip, "three Palestinians were killed in a bombing that targeted a house in Jabalia," according to medical sources and eyewitnesses. Medical sources also reported that "seven Palestinians, including two children, were killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting the Azzam family's home and a kindergarten in Jabalia al-Balad, north of the Strip."
In the southern Gaza Strip, medical sources reported that "three Palestinians were killed and others were injured as a result of Israeli shelling targeting civilians on their way to an aid distribution center southwest of Khan Yunis," according to the sources.
Al-Awda Hospital
Meanwhile, Israeli occupation forces demanded the evacuation of Al-Awda Hospital in Tel al-Zaatar, north of the Gaza Strip, on Thursday afternoon.
The Palestinian News Agency, WAFA, reported that the occupation forces demanded that the hospital administration immediately evacuate the hospital, which contained more than 190 people, including medical staff, patients, and the wounded.
This decision comes days after the hospital and its surroundings were targeted with live ammunition and shelling, amid a serious health crisis plaguing the Gaza Strip.
Later, WAFA reported that the occupation forces detonated several booby-trapped robots around the hospital, while simultaneously firing heavily at the hospital's buildings and facilities.
Escalating hunger
For its part, the Government Media Office in Gaza said on Thursday that Israel's continued closure of crossings and prevention of aid entry has led to increased hunger and a worsening of the catastrophic humanitarian situation in the Strip.
He condemned "in the strongest terms this systematic policy pursued by the Israeli occupation, which uses food as a weapon of war against civilians." He noted that "the continued blocking of aid flows constitutes a full-fledged war crime." The media office held "the Israeli occupation fully legally and morally responsible for the worsening humanitarian catastrophe that threatens the lives of 2.4 million civilians in the Gaza Strip."
In a deliberate policy that, according to the United Nations, paves the way for forced displacement, Israel has starved 2.4 million Palestinians in Gaza by closing the crossings to humanitarian aid, particularly food, since March 2, according to the government media office in the Strip.
Under the weight of famine, the Israeli plan to distribute aid failed after desperate Palestinian crowds stormed an aid distribution center on Tuesday and Wednesday. The Israeli occupation forces shot dead 10 of them and wounded 62, and the organization "temporarily" suspended its operations.
Several Western countries and humanitarian organizations have announced their opposition to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which was recently launched with American and Israeli support to distribute aid. This mechanism serves as an alternative to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), which Tel Aviv recently banned.
Tel Aviv excluded the United Nations and international relief organizations, and tasked the UN-rejected organization with distributing extremely scarce aid to areas in the southern Gaza Strip, in order to force Palestinians to flee and empty the north.
Since October 7, 2023, Israel, with full American support, has been committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, coupled with a stifling blockade that has plunged the Strip into unprecedentedly dire humanitarian conditions.
