The ministry said that 11 martyrs and 36 wounded aid victims arrived at hospitals within 24 hours, bringing the total to 1,132 martyrs and 7,521 wounded since May 27, while the death toll from the Israeli aggression has risen to 59,821 martyrs and 144,851 wounded since October 7, 2023.
Earlier on Sunday, medical sources reported that 53 Palestinians, including 32 aid recipients, were killed and dozens more injured in a series of Israeli airstrikes targeting displaced persons' tents across the Gaza Strip.
In the latest attack, Al-Awda Hospital reported the deaths of 11 Palestinians, including a woman, and the injury of 101 others, as a result of the Israeli occupation army targeting Palestinians waiting for aid on Salah al-Din Street, south of the Gaza Valley area in the central Gaza Strip. This area is considered within the scope of its operations and was not included in the so-called "tactical suspension" it allegedly implemented.
In Deir al-Balah, four Palestinians, including children, were killed and six others were injured when a tent housing displaced persons was bombed near the desalination plant in the al-Barakah area. Five members of the same family were killed in Khan Yunis when an Israeli drone targeted a tent housing displaced persons west of the city.
Nine Palestinians were killed and more than 50 others injured near the Netzarim junction in the central Gaza Strip while waiting for aid. In the Rimal neighborhood, west of Gaza City, an Israeli airstrike killed a woman and a child, despite the occupation's announcement that the area was under a "tactical suspension."
In Khan Yunis, Israeli airstrikes killed 13 people, including two children, in shelling targeting displaced persons' tents and the vicinity of aid distribution centers, according to medical sources at Nasser Medical Complex.
The Israeli-imposed famine continues to claim civilian lives, with six Palestinians killed in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours as a result of Israel's systematic starvation as part of a war of extermination. This brings the total number of deaths from famine and malnutrition to 132 since October 7, 2023, according to the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip.
The Palestinian News Agency (WAFA) reported, citing medical sources at Al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat, that 10-year-old Nour Abu Sala'a died this morning due to starvation and malnutrition, bringing the number of child deaths in Gaza to 86.
On Sunday morning, what the Israeli occupation army claimed was a "local tactical suspension of military activities" in specific areas of the Gaza Strip, to allow the passage of humanitarian aid, came into effect amid Tel Aviv's genocide and starvation of more than 2.4 million Palestinians in the besieged enclave.
The Israeli declaration went into effect at 10 a.m. Gaza time, and includes the city of Deir al-Balah (central), Gaza City (north), and the coastal area known as Al-Mawasi along the coastline, from the southwest of Deir al-Balah to the west of Rafah (south), according to what the army claimed.
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 genocide, backed by the United States, left more than 204,000 Palestinians dead and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 9,000 missing. Hundreds of thousands were displaced, and a famine claimed the lives of many, including dozens of children.
