Deir Al-Balah, Strip Gaza-Los Hospitals in the Gaza Strip received the remains of 51 Palestinians killed in Israeli air attacks in the last 24 hours, the local Ministry of Health said on Sunday, carrying the number of Palestinian deaths of the Israel-Shamas war from 18 months to 52,243.
Israel finished its high fire with Hamas by launching a surprise bombing on March 18, and has been carrying out daily waves since then. The land forces have expanded a damping zone and have surrounded Rafah’s southern city, and now control around 50% of the territory.
Israel has also sealed the 2 million Palestinians from the territory of all imports, including food and medicine, for almost 60 days. Help groups say that supplies will soon run out and that thousands of children are malnourished.
The number of deaths in general includes almost 700 bodies for which the documentation process was recently completed, the ministry said in its last update. The daily toll includes bodies recovered from the rubble after previous strikes.
Israeli strikes killed 12 other people after the ministry update. Eight of them, including three children and two women, were killed in a strike in a tent in the southern city of Khan Younis, according to Nasser Hospital. A strike in the central city of Deir Al-Balah killed four people, according to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital.
Israeli authorities say that the renewed and hardened renewed blockade aims to press Hamas to free hostages kidnapped in their October 7, 2023 attack that triggered war. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has promised to continue the war until Hamas is destroyed or disarmed, and all hostages are returned.
Hamas has said that he will only release the remaining 59 hostages, 24 of which are believed to be alive, in exchange for Palestinian prisoners, a high durable fire and a complete Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, as requested in the high high the fire reached in January.
The militants led by Hamas killed about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, in the attack of October 7 and took 251 people as hostages. The majority since then have been published in high the fire or other agreements.
Gaza’s Ministry of Health says that women and children constitute most of the Palestinian deaths, but does not say how many were militants or civilians. He says that another 117,600 people have been injured in the war.
The general count includes 2,151 dead and 5,598 injured since Israel resumed the war last month.
Israel says he has killed about 20,000 militants, without providing evidence. The army says that he tries to avoid damaging civilians and blames Hamas for their deaths because militants operate in densely populated areas.
Israel’s offensive has destroyed vast parts of Gaza and displaced around 90% of its population, leaving hundreds of thousands of people protecting in scan store camps or bombarded buildings.
