Medical sources reported that the number of martyrs has risen to 4 following an Israeli bombing that targeted the Zeitoun neighborhood southeast of Gaza City, after the number had been two.
Eyewitnesses said that the bodies of the martyrs arrived at Al-Shifa Hospital in the west of the city.
In a related incident, a Palestinian infant died on Thursday as a result of the extreme cold in Gaza City.
The Palestinian News and Information Agency (WAFA) quoted medical sources as saying that "three-month-old baby Ali Abu Zur died in Gaza City due to the extreme cold."
This brings the death toll among children in the Gaza Strip due to the extreme cold since the beginning of winter to 10, amid a shortage of aid and a lack of heating, according to the agency.
The Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip announced on Thursday that the death toll has risen to "71,562 martyrs and 171,379 wounded" as a result of the genocide committed by Israel since October 2023.
The ministry said in a statistical statement that hospitals in the sector received "11 new martyrs, in addition to 7 wounded" during the past 48 hours, without explaining the circumstances.
Despite the ceasefire on October 10, 2025, Israel continues to kill and arrest Palestinians, and has killed 483 Palestinians since then, while restrictions on the entry of food, shelter and medical supplies into Gaza, where about 2.4 million Palestinians live in tragic conditions, continue.
These violations come despite the recent announcement by the US administration of the start of the second phase of the agreement to stop the genocide that Israel began on October 8, 2023, and which lasted for two years, leaving behind massive destruction that affected 90 percent of the civilian infrastructure, with reconstruction costs estimated by the United Nations at about $70 billion.
