Dozens of martyrs in Gaza since dawn... and the occupation violates its commitment to allow aid trucks into the Strip.

The Ministry of Health in Gaza announced on Wednesday that the death toll from Israel's genocidal war has risen to 53,655 martyrs and 121,950 wounded since October 7, 2023.

The ministry said in its statistical report today: "82 martyrs and 262 injured people arrived at Gaza Strip hospitals over the past 24 hours." It noted that "the death toll and injuries since 'Israel resumed its genocide' on March 18, 2025, has reached 3,509 martyrs and 9,909 injured."

The number of Palestinians killed by the Israeli occupation army in several massacres in the Gaza Strip since dawn on Wednesday has risen to 51, including women and children. This escalation included the targeting of Al-Awda Hospital as part of the ongoing Israeli genocide against the Strip, which has been ongoing for 20 months.

Medical and civil defense sources said that Israeli attacks targeted homes in the northern, central, and southern Gaza Strip, while civil defense and medical crews are still searching for missing persons under the rubble.

In the latest raid, six Palestinians were killed in a drone strike targeting a gathering of civilians on al-Nafaq Street in Gaza City, according to medical sources. The administration of al-Awda Hospital in Tel al-Zaatar, Jabalia camp, north of the Gaza Strip, also announced that Israeli artillery shelling targeted the third floor of the hospital, without specifying the extent of the damage or whether there were any casualties.

Over the past few hours, medical sources reported that Civil Defense rescue teams recovered 15 bodies from under the rubble of homes bombed the previous night.

Meanwhile, the Government Media Office in Gaza said in a statement that the occupation continues, for the third consecutive day, to prevent trucks carrying humanitarian and relief aid from entering Gaza, in flagrant violation of its previously announced commitments and pledges.

This comes as Israel claimed to have allowed 93 trucks into the Gaza Strip, while the United Nations said 100 trucks had received permission to cross, without confirming their arrival.

The Government Media Office statement indicated that "the occupation has halted the entry of aid, which it claimed it would allow, since last Monday, without any legal or humanitarian justification, at a time when the Gaza Strip is experiencing a severe shortage of food, medicine, and fuel, and a severe deterioration in health and living conditions."

The Israeli occupation army claimed that it allowed 93 UN trucks loaded with flour, baby food, medical equipment, and medicines to enter Gaza through the Kerem Shalom crossing.

Israeli authorities, through their coordinator of activities in the Palestinian territories, Ghassan Alian, said that the Ministry of Defense's Land Crossings Authority subjected the trucks to a thorough security inspection before they were brought into Gaza. However, Ismail al-Thawabta, director of the government media office in Gaza, confirmed that "Israel has not allowed any aid into Gaza for more than 80 days."

Al-Thawabta added, "The trucks are still inside the crossing and have not been handed over to any humanitarian organization."

The Palestinian account is consistent with what Jens Laerke, spokesperson for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), said during a press conference in Geneva on Tuesday. He said that only five of the nine trucks approved on Monday had entered the crossing, but had not yet been delivered to the UN due to "logistical complications" and unloading and refilling operations under Israeli control.

Since March 2, Israel has continued its policy of systematically starving approximately 2.4 million Palestinians in Gaza by closing the crossings to aid supplies piling up at the border, plunging the Strip into famine and claiming many lives.

With full American support, Israel has been committing genocidal crimes in Gaza since October 7, 2023, leaving more than 175,000 Palestinians dead or wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 11,000 missing, in addition to hundreds of thousands displaced.