Gaza’s Ministry of Health said on Thursday that at least 50,887 Palestinians have been killed, most of them women and children and 115,875 wounded, with thousands still missing, since Israel began attacking the besieged territory following an attack led by the Palestinian group Hamas on October 7, 2023.
An estimated 1,139 people were killed and some 250 were taken captive in the attack in southern Israel.
On Thursday, at least 13 Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip, as Israel continued its deadly onslaught on the blockaded territory, medics said.
A medical source said five people, including a child, were killed when an Israeli drone shelled a group of civilians in central Gaza City. Several other people were injured in the attack.
Another strike hit a populated house in the Shujaiya neighborhood in Gaza City, leaving four people dead, the source said.
In southern Gaza, an airstrike on a tent for displaced civilians left two people dead and several others injured in Al-Qarara town, according to the official Palestinian news agency Wafa.
A child was also killed in the Al-Fukhari area in Khan Younis city as a result of Israeli artillery shelling.
Wafa also reported that one more Palestinian was killed in an Israeli strike on a tent for displaced people in the central Gaza Strip.
Israeli artillery shelling was also reported in several areas across Gaza, including the southern cities of Rafah and Khan Younis, eastern Gaza City, and northern Gaza’s Beit Lahia town.
The Israeli army renewed a deadly assault on Gaza on March 18 and has since killed more than 1,500 people, injured over 3,800 others, and shattered a ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement in the enclave that was signed in January.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed last week to escalate attacks on Gaza as efforts are underway to implement US President Donald Trump’s plan to displace Palestinians from the enclave.
The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants last November for Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister, Yoav Gallant, for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.
Israel also faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its war on the enclave.
