The Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip said in a statement on Wednesday: "Gaza hospitals recorded 10 new deaths due to famine and malnutrition in the past 24 hours," adding that these victims "bring the total number of deaths due to famine and malnutrition to 111."
On Tuesday, the ministry announced the deaths of 15 Palestinians, including four children, due to starvation in the previous 24 hours.
In another statement, the ministry said earlier on Wednesday that "113 martyrs and 534 wounded arrived at hospitals within 24 hours as a result of the Israeli genocide," noting that "the death toll from the Israeli aggression has risen to 59,219 martyrs and 143,045 wounded since October 7, 2023."
According to medical sources, "seven Palestinians, including children and a fetus that was delivered from its mother's womb, were killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting an apartment west of the radio and television building in the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood of Gaza City."
They pointed out that the attack resulted in "a number of injuries that arrived at Al-Shifa and Al-Quds hospitals (in Gaza City)."
The sources also reported that "a girl was killed and 11 others, most of them children, were injured and taken to Al-Shifa Hospital, as a result of an Israeli attack on a displaced persons' tent in the Al-Shati refugee camp park, northwest of Gaza City."
In the southern Gaza Strip, a medical source said that "at least one martyr and a number of wounded arrived at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, following an Israeli bombardment that targeted them in the town of Bani Suhaila, east of the city."
Israel launched a series of airstrikes targeting areas in central and southern Khan Yunis overnight.
In a related context, "heavy Israeli artillery shelling and several airstrikes throughout last night and into the early hours of the morning targeted several areas southeast of Deir al-Balah (central), as well as east of al-Bureij camp (central)," according to eyewitnesses.
Witnesses said the central governorate witnessed "gunfire from Israeli vehicles stationed east of the governorate."
The number of martyred journalists has risen to 231.
In a related development, the Government Media Office in Gaza announced on Wednesday that the number of journalist martyrs in the Strip had risen to 231, following the deaths of journalists Tamer al-Za'anin, Walaa al-Jabari, and their five children by Israeli fire.
"The number of martyred journalists has risen to 231 since the beginning of the genocidal war on the Gaza Strip (on October 7, 2023)," he said in a statement.
He added that the rising death toll comes "after the announcement of the martyrdom of our two fellow journalists, Tamer Al-Za'anin, who works as a photojournalist with several media outlets, and Walaa Al-Jabari, who works as a journalist with several media outlets."
The Government Media Office condemned "in the strongest terms the systematic targeting, killing, and assassination of Palestinian journalists by the Israeli occupation."
The statement called on "the International Federation of Journalists, the Federation of Arab Journalists, and all journalistic bodies worldwide to condemn these systematic crimes against Palestinian journalists and media professionals in the Gaza Strip."
He held "the Israeli occupation, the US administration, and the countries complicit in the crime of genocide, such as the United Kingdom, Germany, and France, fully responsible for committing these heinous, brutal crimes."
He also called on "the international community, international organizations, and organizations involved in journalistic and media work in all countries of the world to condemn the crimes of the occupation, deter it, prosecute it in international courts for its ongoing crimes, and bring the occupation's criminals to justice."
"severe starvation"
On the humanitarian front, the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said on Wednesday that Palestinians in Gaza, including its employees, are fainting due to severe hunger, noting that children and disabled people in the Strip have died as a result of starvation and severe malnutrition.
In a post on the X platform, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) renewed its call to lift the Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip and allow the entry of humanitarian aid to end the famine there.
"People in Gaza, including UNRWA staff, are fainting from extreme hunger and starvation," she said, adding, "People, including children and people with special needs, are dying from severe malnutrition."
She added, "UNRWA alone has thousands of trucks in neighboring countries waiting to enter Gaza, since the Israeli authorities banned their entry in March."
The UN agency continued: "The blockade must be lifted now to allow our life-saving humanitarian aid to enter."
On Tuesday, the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza announced that the death toll from famine and malnutrition since October 2023 had risen to 101, including 80 children, after 15 Palestinians, including four children, were killed in the space of 24 hours.
The government media office in Gaza warned last Sunday that the Strip was on the verge of "mass death," after more than 140 days of closed crossings.
Since March 2, Israel has evaded further implementation of a ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement with Hamas, closing Gaza's crossings to aid trucks stacked along the border.
Israel has been blockading Gaza for 18 years, leaving approximately 1.5 million Palestinians out of a population of approximately 2.4 million in the Strip homeless after their homes were destroyed in the war of extermination.
Since October 7, 2023, Israel has been waging a war of extermination in Gaza, including killing, starvation, destruction, and forced displacement, ignoring all international calls and orders from the International Court of Justice to halt it.
The US-backed genocide left more than 201,000 Palestinians dead or wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 9,000 missing, in addition to hundreds of thousands of displaced persons and a famine that claimed the lives of many.
