The Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip announced in a statement on Thursday: "118 martyrs and 581 injuries have arrived in Gaza Strip hospitals in the past 24 hours," and reported that "the death toll from the Israeli aggression has risen to 57,130 martyrs and 135,173 injuries since October 7, 2023."
Since Israel resumed its war of extermination on March 18, the death toll has reached "6,572 martyrs and 23,132 wounded," according to the statement. The ministry also stated that "the number of aid victims who arrived at hospitals in the past 24 hours has reached 12 martyrs and more than 49 wounded."
She added, "This brings the total number of martyrs who have been admitted to hospitals to 652, with more than 4,537 injured."
In the latest Israeli airstrike, medical sources said seven Palestinians were killed and 30 others injured in an Israeli attack on aid workers waiting for them to arrive at the Red Cross field hospital in the Shakoush area of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.
A medical source also said that three Palestinians were killed by Israeli occupation forces after being targeted near an aid distribution point near Salah al-Din Street in the north-central Gaza Strip.
In Gaza City, three Palestinians were killed and others injured when Israeli drones shelled two gatherings of civilians in the Zeitoun and Tuffah neighborhoods, south and east of Gaza City, according to a medical source at the Baptist Hospital.
A medical source said that the body of a Palestinian woman arrived at the Baptist Hospital after being recovered from under the rubble of an Israeli airstrike on Fahd al-Sabah School in the al-Tuffah neighborhood.
Earlier, a medical source at Al-Shifa Hospital reported that the death toll from an Israeli airstrike targeting the Mustafa Hafez School, which houses displaced persons in central Gaza City, had risen to 13 Palestinians, including women and children.
Eyewitnesses said the Israeli raid left the school devastated and caused a massive fire. "The bodies of the martyrs were transported to the hospital charred," they said.
At dawn on Thursday, 24 Palestinians waiting for aid were killed and dozens more were injured in an Israeli airstrike targeting gatherings of starving people east of Nabulsi Roundabout and near the Netzarim axis south of Gaza City.
A medical source said that a woman was killed and others were injured in an Israeli bombardment that targeted a house in the Al-Daraj neighborhood, east of Gaza City. The source also noted that a Palestinian child died of wounds he sustained several days earlier in an Israeli bombardment of Al-Wahda Street in central Gaza City.
In the northern Gaza Strip, three Palestinians were killed by Israeli artillery fire on the western roundabout in Beit Lahia, according to Palestinian medics. The medics added that a Palestinian was killed by Israeli shelling near the Jabalia Care Center.
In the southern Gaza Strip, medical sources reported that "26 martyrs arrived at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, including seven people waiting for aid in the Tahlia area in the south."
She explained that "the occupation army's raids targeted tents housing displaced people in the Al-Mawasi area, west of Khan Yunis."
According to a statement from the Palestinian Civil Defense, a fire broke out in a number of tents and completely consumed them before being brought under control.
On Wednesday, Israel killed at least 116 Palestinians, including 27 starving people, in separate attacks on Gaza.
The Government Media Office in Gaza announced on Wednesday that the occupation army had committed "26 bloody massacres" in 48 hours, leaving more than 300 martyrs and hundreds more wounded and missing, all of them civilians.
"It's like the Day of Resurrection"
In the same context, the UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine, Francesca Albanese, said on Thursday that the situation in the occupied Palestinian territories resembles "doomsday."
This came during her presentation of her report, "From the Economy of Occupation to the Economy of Genocide," which examines the economic factors behind the genocide Israel has been perpetrating against Palestinians for 22 months, during a meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Council.
"Israel is responsible for one of the most heinous crimes of genocide in modern history," Albanese added, noting that the report reveals the economic conditions that enable Israel to displace Palestinians through destruction, isolation, and surveillance.
Since October 7, 2023, Israel has been waging a war of genocide 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 genocide, backed by the United States, left more than 191,000 Palestinians dead and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 11,000 missing. Hundreds of thousands were displaced, and a famine claimed the lives of many, including dozens of children.
