The ministry said in its daily statistical statement that hospitals in the Gaza Strip received "59 martyrs and 386 wounded" over the past 24 hours as a result of the ongoing Israeli attacks.
She confirmed the presence of a number of victims under the rubble of destroyed homes and buildings and on the roads, with ambulance and civil defense crews unable to reach them due to the dangerous security situation.
The ministry explained that the death toll among those awaiting humanitarian aid has risen to "2,497 martyrs and more than 18,294 wounded" since May 27.
She noted that hospitals in the Gaza Strip had received "112 injured people awaiting aid" over the past 24 hours.
Beyond the supervision of the United Nations and international relief organizations, Tel Aviv began implementing a mechanism on May 27 to distribute aid through the so-called "Gaza Humanitarian Relief Foundation," an organization supported by Israel and the United States but rejected by the United Nations.
The Israeli occupation army deliberately targeted those waiting for aid at distribution points, killing and wounding thousands of them.
In this context, the ministry stated that the death toll from Palestinian casualties since Israel resumed its genocide in Gaza on March 18 has risen to "12,413 martyrs and 53,271 wounded."
Rising starvation deaths
In this context, the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip announced on Tuesday that the death toll from malnutrition resulting from Israel's ongoing starvation policy for nearly two years has risen to 428 Palestinians, including 146 children.
The ministry said in a statement that it had recorded "three deaths, including a child, as a result of famine and malnutrition" in the past 24 hours.
She explained that this brings the "total number of deaths due to malnutrition to 428 martyrs, including 146 children," since October 7, 2023.
She noted that since the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) declared famine in Gaza last August, "150 deaths, including 31 children, have been recorded."
The organization announced, in a report on August 22, "the occurrence of famine in Gaza City (north)" and expected it to "spread to the cities of Deir al-Balah (central) and Khan Yunis (south) by the end of September (current)."
bloody night
Meanwhile, the Israeli occupation forces killed 38 Palestinians, including 35 in Gaza City alone, while others were injured or missing since dawn on Tuesday in separate attacks on the Strip. This coincided with intense aerial and artillery bombardment, as well as the use of booby-trapped robots to destroy homes and residential buildings northwest of the city on a bloody night.
According to medical sources and eyewitnesses, the occupation army targeted several adjacent houses crowded with Palestinians and tents housing displaced people.
The Israeli occupation army committed a horrific massacre by bombing adjacent homes belonging to the Zaqout, Hamad, and Ashour families near the General Security Junction, resulting in the initial death of eight Palestinians, including children and women, and the injury of more than 40 others, with dozens missing under the rubble.
For several hours, civil defense and ambulance crews continued to try to rescue as many injured people as possible from under the rubble and recover the dead.
In the eastern part of the city, the occupation army committed a second massacre by bombing two inhabited homes belonging to the Taha and Masoud families near Shawa Square in the Daraj neighborhood. The initial toll resulted in the martyrdom of three Palestinians and the loss of dozens more from under the rubble.
The bombing caused widespread destruction to nearby homes, while the dead were still being recovered from the rubble and transported to Baptist and Shifa hospitals. The final death toll remains unknown.
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In the south of the city, four Palestinians were killed and others injured in an Israeli bombardment targeting an inhabited home belonging to the al-Hindi family in the al-Sabra neighborhood.
In the western part of the city, a number of Palestinians, mostly women and children, were injured in an Israeli airstrike that targeted an inhabited home belonging to the Siam family in the Shati refugee camp.
A number of Palestinians were also injured in Israeli shelling that targeted the vicinity of Hamama School in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, northwest of the city.
Throughout the night, the Israeli army continued to carry out operations targeting homes and residential buildings with booby-trapped robots around the Birkat al-Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, while simultaneously launching artillery shelling and drone fire at nearby civilian homes.
Meanwhile, Israeli warplanes launched a series of intensive and successive raids targeting the intelligence and al-Karamah areas northwest of the city.
In the central Gaza Strip, a father, mother, and their daughter were killed, and others were injured, in an Israeli airstrike that targeted the home of the Tamraz family on Market Street, west of Deir al-Balah.
A number of Palestinians were also injured in an Israeli attack that targeted a tent housing displaced persons at Abu Hamisa School in Al-Bureij camp.
The flight of children from Gaza City is "inhumane."
On the humanitarian front, a UNICEF official said Tuesday that it is "inhumane" to expect hundreds of thousands of children to leave Gaza City because the camps in the south are unsafe, overcrowded, and ill-equipped to receive them.
Israel announced on Tuesday the start of its long-awaited ground operation in Gaza City, the Strip's main urban center, whose residents it has ordered to flee.
UN data shows that more than 140,000 people have fled south of Gaza City since August 14, out of a population of approximately one million.
"It is inhumane to expect nearly half a million children, who have been exposed to violence and trauma over more than 700 days of ongoing conflict, to flee one hell only to end up in another," UNICEF spokesperson Tess Ingram told reporters via video link from the sprawling Al Mawasi camp in the Gaza Strip.
"People don't really have a good choice, either to stay in danger or to flee to a place they also know is dangerous," Ingram said, adding that some children were killed in Al Mawasi camp while fetching water.
She described seeing large numbers of people fleeing on the main road outside Gaza City this week. Ingram said she met one mother, Israa, who made the journey on foot with her five hungry and thirsty children, two of whom were barefoot.
Preventing the entry of aid
Also on the humanitarian front, the Government Media Office in Gaza stated that since July 27, 2025, only 4,543 aid trucks have entered the Gaza Strip out of an expected 30,000, representing only about 15% of the humanitarian needs of 2.4 million people, including more than one million children.
He stated that some trucks were looted amid the security chaos imposed by the Israeli occupation through its policy of "engineering starvation and chaos" to deplete the resilience of the Palestinian people.
The office stated that the occupation continues to impose a stifling blockade on Gaza by closing the crossings and preventing the entry of necessary aid, in addition to closing the northern Zikim crossing. It also deprives the population of more than 430 basic food items, targeting the lives of civilians and their sources of survival.
Although Israel has allowed the entry of limited trucks carrying humanitarian aid and goods, starvation continues, with most of these trucks being stolen by gangs the Gaza government claims enjoy Israeli protection.
