Palestinian death toll in Gaza surpasses 65,000

The Palestinian death toll in Gaza has risen to 65,062, with 165,697 others injured, since the Israel-Hamas conflict erupted on Oct 7, 2023, said Gaza's health authorities on Wednesday.

In the past 24 hours, hospitals across the region received 98 victims and 385 injured ones, the authorities added.

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Of those, seven were killed and 87 others wounded while seeking food at aid distribution sites, the data showed.

Since the U.S.- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) began distributing aid supplies on May 27, a total of 2,504 people seeking aid have been killed and 18,381 injured.

Meanwhile, the health authorities also reported four more deaths from famine and malnutrition in the past 24 hours, raising the death toll linked to food shortages to 432, including 146 children.

Tehran was hit by a barrage of airstrikes on Tuesday, with thick smoke rising in many parts of the city, according to a China Media Group (CMG) reporter stationed in the Iranian capital.

Video footage shot by the reporter showed smoke and dust engulfing nearby buildings after one airstrike.

Airstrikes also threw up thick columns of smoke in western, eastern, and far northeastern Tehran, with all the explosions occurring within minutes of each other, according to the reporter.