The death toll from Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip has risen to 64,756
At least 64,756 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s genocidal war on the Gaza Strip since October 2023, the Health Ministry said on Friday.
In Gaza City, several people were killed and others wounded, some critically, after Israeli warplanes struck a tent sheltering displaced families in the west of the city.
In al-Shati refugee camp, an airstrike targeted a bicycle, killing one person and injuring others. Another air raid hit the vicinity of Bir Al-Sabea Mosque in Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, while a residential building near Al-Karama Hospital in the north was also bombed.
In Khan Younis, southern Gaza, two brothers from the Abu Rida family were killed in an airstrike on the town of Bani Suheila, east of the city.
A ministry statement said that 38 bodies, including two recovered from under rubble, were brought to hospitals over the last 24 hours, while 200 people were injured, bringing the overall number of injuries to 164,059.
Four more Palestinians were killed and others wounded when Israeli forces struck Jabalia al-Nazla area in the northern Gaza Strip. Two additional Palestinians were killed and several injured when a tent sheltering displaced families in Al-Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City, was targeted.
In Rafah, one person was killed and others injured by Israeli gunfire while waiting for aid distribution north of the city, while another Palestinian was killed in Khan Younis, in the south of the Strip.
In the Al-Sudaniya area, northwest Gaza City, several civilians were killed and wounded when a house was hit by an Israeli airstrike.
Meanwhile, in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, a Palestinian man succumbed to injuries sustained in an earlier strike. Earlier at dawn today, Israeli warplanes targeted three homes belonging to the Abu Meiri family east of the city.
The ministry also noted that 14 Palestinians were killed and 143 others injured by Israeli fire while seeking humanitarian aid in the last 24 hours, raising the total number of Palestinians killed while seeking aid to 2,479, with more than 18,091 others injured since May 27.
It further said that two more Palestinians, including a child, died of malnutrition and starvation in the last 24 hours. This brought the famine-linked death toll since October 2023 to 413 people, including 143 children.
According to the ministry, 135 of those deaths, among them 28 children, occurred after the UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) formally declared Gaza a famine zone.
