The ministry reported that the death toll from the Israeli aggression on Gaza has risen to 51,157 martyrs and 116,724 wounded since October 7, 2023, while the death toll since the occupation resumed its war of extermination on Gaza on March 18 has reached 1,783 martyrs, in addition to 4,683 wounded, according to the statement.
At dawn on Saturday, the Israeli occupation forces bombed tents housing displaced persons and a house in the Al-Mawasi area of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip with three airstrikes, killing 11 Palestinians and wounding others, most of them children and women.
A woman and her child were killed in an Israeli drone strike on the Ma'an area east of Khan Yunis, while Israeli forces opened heavy fire east of the town of Al-Qarara. In Rafah (south), Israeli artillery continued its shelling of the eastern and western areas, while simultaneously demolishing residential buildings there.
Massacres in the Gaza Strip
In Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip, four Palestinians were killed and others wounded in Israeli shelling of the al-Atatra area. In the central Gaza Strip, two Palestinians were killed in two Israeli airstrikes, the first targeting al-Masdar village, northeast of Deir al-Balah, while the second targeted a gathering of civilians on Salah al-Din Street, north of al-Bureij camp, according to a medical source.
In Gaza City, a medical source said that two Palestinians were killed and four others were injured in an Israeli bombardment that targeted a tent housing displaced people near Abu Hasira Street, near Gaza Port (west).
During the night, the Israeli occupation forces intensified their artillery shelling of the Shuja'iyya neighborhood in the east of the city and continued to destroy residential buildings there.
On Friday, the World Food Programme said that two million people in Gaza, most of them displaced, are entirely dependent on food aid.
The programme warned that Gaza is in dire need of immediate food supplies, with supplies of essential food supplies running low and the crossings remaining closed. It warned that hundreds of thousands of people in the Strip are at risk due to the shortage of food supplies.