The ministry explained, in its daily statistical statement, that the death toll from the Israeli occupation's resumption of its genocidal war on the Gaza Strip on March 18 has risen to 1,827 martyrs and 4,828 wounded.
In the past 24 hours alone, the ministry documented the arrival of 44 martyrs and 145 wounded to hospitals in the Gaza Strip as a result of Israeli attacks.
Medical sources reported that at least 29 Palestinians, most of them women and children, have been killed since dawn on Sunday as a result of heavy Israeli shelling targeting various areas in the Gaza Strip.
In the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, nine Palestinians, including women and children, were killed when an Israeli airstrike targeted a home belonging to the Darwish family. Meanwhile, Israeli tanks heavily shelled areas in the city of Deir al-Balah and the Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.
In the southern Gaza Strip, two civilians, including a woman, were killed and four others, including children, were injured in an Israeli drone strike targeting tents housing displaced persons in the Al-Mawasi area, west of Khan Yunis.
The Civil Defense Authority in Gaza confirmed that its crews recovered the body of a martyr and treated injured children and the elderly after the occupation forces bombed a tent housing displaced people in the Mawasi area of Khan Yunis.
In addition, two civilians were killed and others injured in an Israeli airstrike on a house in the Al-Manara neighborhood, south of Khan Yunis. Occupation airstrikes also targeted a house in the Al-Farahin area of the Abasan al-Kabira town, east of Khan Yunis. The death toll from the airstrikes remains unknown.
Another house was bombed near the customs office southeast of Khan Yunis, killing one person and wounding four others, according to paramedics.
Also east of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, five Palestinians were killed in Israeli shelling near the Kaf Sufa area. The ongoing shelling is currently preventing their recovery, according to eyewitnesses.
In eastern Gaza City, two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting a gathering of civilians in the Shuja'iyya neighborhood, according to medical sources. The sources added that five other Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike on Nakhil Street in the Tuffah neighborhood, northeast of the city.
In the al-Zeitoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza, a Palestinian man and his child were killed when Israeli warplanes targeted Wadi al-Arayes Street with an airstrike, according to the same sources. Eyewitnesses reported that Israeli occupation forces blew up residential buildings east of Gaza City, continuing their policy of systematic destruction.
In the northern Gaza Strip, a Palestinian youth was killed and others were injured as a result of Israeli artillery shelling targeting the town of Beit Lahia, according to eyewitnesses.
Gaza's Civil Defense confirmed that a number of victims remain trapped under the rubble of destroyed buildings and in the streets, with ambulance and civil defense crews facing significant difficulties in reaching them due to the ongoing shelling and dangerous conditions on the ground.
UN warns of collapse of children's health system
The World Food Programme said that two million people in Gaza, most of them displaced, are completely dependent on food aid. It warned that Gaza is in dire need of immediate food aid, with supplies of essential foodstuffs running low and the crossings remaining closed.
For its part, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) confirmed that children's and neonatal hospitals in the Gaza Strip lack medical equipment and operate under extremely difficult conditions, given the continued Israeli occupation's ban on humanitarian aid entering the Strip since March 18.
The organization stated in a press statement that the survival of Gaza's children depends on the reimposition of a ceasefire and the entry of aid into the Strip, stressing the need to allow this aid to enter the Strip again.
The Government Media Office in Gaza revealed yesterday that more than 18,000 children have been killed since the start of the aggression on October 7, including 892 children under one year old and 281 infants who were killed after birth during the war.
In this context, Amjad Shawa, head of the NGO Network and deputy commissioner-general of the Independent Commission for Human Rights in Gaza, warned that the Gaza Strip has effectively entered a famine phase, and that the humanitarian situation has reached its most critical level since the beginning of the aggression.