The ministry said in its daily report that hospitals in the Gaza Strip received 54 martyrs over the past 24 hours, including four who were pulled from under the rubble, and 831 injured. It noted that the death toll since March 18 has reached 10,251 martyrs and 42,865 injured.
She added that the number of victims of the targeting of aid-seekers in a single day reached 22 martyrs and 269 wounded, bringing the total number of victims of what have become known as "death traps" to 1,881 martyrs and more than 13,863 wounded.
The ministry also recorded four deaths in the past few hours due to famine and malnutrition, bringing the death toll from deliberate starvation to 239, including 106 children. The siege continues and sufficient aid is prevented from entering. A number of victims remain trapped under the rubble and in the streets.
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Deaths from famine continue despite Israel allowing the entry of limited trucks carrying goods and humanitarian aid about two weeks ago, most of which are stolen by gangs the Gaza government claims enjoy Israeli protection.
Since March 2, Israel has closed all crossings into Gaza, preventing the entry of any humanitarian aid. This has plunged the Strip into a state of famine, despite the backlog of aid trucks at its borders and the limited quantities allowed in, which do not meet the minimum needs of starving Palestinians.
Recently, the World Food Programme warned that "a third of Gaza's population has not eaten for several days," describing the humanitarian situation as "unprecedented in its levels of hunger and despair." Meanwhile, the United Nations confirmed that Gaza needs hundreds of aid trucks daily to end the famine it is suffering from as a result of the blockade and genocide.
In the details of the targeting, the Israeli occupation forces committed a series of massacres on Thursday in the north and south of the Gaza Strip, resulting in the deaths of 20 Palestinians, including eight members of one family, in a bombing that targeted an inhabited house in the Zeitoun neighborhood in southern Gaza City, according to medical sources.
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Two Palestinians were also killed in a drone strike in the al-Tuffah neighborhood east of the city, and others were injured in a helicopter raid on an apartment near the al-Samar intersection.
The area witnessed the bombing of homes and residential buildings in the Zeitoun neighborhood, coinciding with artillery shelling. Ten people were killed and others wounded by Israeli army gunfire while waiting for aid on al-Tina Street and the Happy City area near the Morag axis, south of Khan Yunis.
An Israeli helicopter launched an airstrike targeting an apartment in a residential building near the Samar Junction in Gaza City, resulting in a number of injuries, according to a medical source.
Israeli artillery shelling targeted areas surrounding Asdaa Prison, northwest of Khan Yunis, which houses dozens of displaced persons' tents. No injuries were reported.
Since October 7, 2023, Israel, with US support, has been committing genocide in Gaza, including killing, starvation, destruction, and forced displacement, ignoring all international appeals and orders from the International Court of Justice to halt it.
In addition to the martyrs and wounded, most of whom were children and women, the genocide left more than 9,000 missing, hundreds of thousands displaced, and a famine that claimed the lives of many.
