The Palestinian death toll in the Gaza Strip has risen to 52,615, with 118,752 others injured since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas conflict in early October 2023, according to a statement released Tuesday by Gaza-based health authorities.
The statement said that since Israel resumed intensive military operation on March 18, at least 2,507 Palestinians have been killed and 6,711 injured.
In the past 24 hours alone, 48 Palestinians were killed, and 142 others injured in Israeli military operations across the enclave, it also said.
Palestinian Civil Defense spokesperson Mahmoud Basal said on Tuesday at least 17 Palestinians, including women and children, were killed on the day when an Israeli airstrike hit a school sheltering displaced people east of the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza.
He added research and rescue work is underway to unearth the people trapped under the rubble.
In a statement released on Tuesday, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it hit a Hamas command and control center in central Gaza.
Basem Naim, a senior Hamas official, told media on Tuesday that as long as the starvation war and the extermination war continue in Gaza, there is no point in participating in any ceasefire negotiation or considering new ceasefire agreement.
He called on the international community to exert pressure on the Israeli government and force it to end its crimes of hunger and killing in the Strip.
Palestinian death toll in Gaza rises to 52,615
Palestinian death toll in Gaza rises to 52,615
