Palestinian death toll in Gaza rises to 62,064

The Palestinian death toll in the Gaza Strip has risen to 62,064, with 156,573 injured since the conflict between Hamas and Israel erupted in October 2023, Gaza's health authorities said in a statement on Tuesday.

Over the past 24 hours, Israeli attacks on the enclave killed 60 people and wounded 343 others. Thirty-one people were killed and 197 were injured when attempting to get humanitarian aid, according to the statement.

The death toll since March 18 this year, following a brief ceasefire, has reached 10,518, with 44,532 injured, the statement added.

At least 30 Palestinians were killed and dozens of others injured by the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, according to the Civil Defense in Gaza.

Mahmoud Basal, spokesman for the Civil Defense, told China's Xinhua News Agency that the casualties resulted from Israeli shelling and gunfire targeting tents for displaced people and gatherings of Palestinians near U.S.-backed aid distribution centers.

Basal said two men were killed when Israeli forces opened fire near aid centers north of Rafah in southern Gaza, while another man was killed in the al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis.

An airstrike near Abu Safar Mall in central Deir al-Balah killed five people, while another strike near the Netzarim junction left one dead and several wounded. Four people, including two children, were killed in a strike on a tent in Khan Younis, according to Basal.

Additional strikes in Gaza City and west of Khan Younis killed at least five more, while Israeli fire near the Kissufim area southeast of Deir al-Balah killed five others. In Deir al-Balah's al-Basah area, a strike on a tent killed five, including three children aged between one and 13, he said.

Meanwhile, Al-Awda Hospital reported receiving two bodies and seven wounded people after an attack on civilians gathered near an aid distribution point on Salah al-Din Street in central Gaza.

There was no immediate comment from the Israeli army on these incidents.

China's outstanding aggregate social financing -- the total amount of financing to the real economy -- reached 442.12 trillion yuan (about 63.4 trillion U.S. dollars) as of the end of 2025, up 8.3 percent year on year, central bank data showed on Thursday.

The country's aggregate social financing stood at 35.6 trillion yuan (about 5.1 trillion U.S. dollars) in 2025, up by 3.34 trillion yuan (about 479 billion U.S. dollars) from the year 2024, said the People's Bank of China (PBOC), the country's central bank.

According to the data, the M2, a broad measure of money supply that covers cash in circulation and all deposits, increased 8.5 percent year on year to 340.29 trillion yuan (about 48.8 trillion U.S. dollars) as of the end of December.

In addition, outstanding yuan loans stood at 271.91 trillion yuan (about 39 trillion U.S. dollars) at the end of 2025, up 6.4 percent year on year.