At least 139 Palestinians were killed and 425 others wounded in the past 24 hours amid unrelenting Israeli bombardment across the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Health Ministry reported on Sunday.

The new figures bring the total number of Palestinians killed since Israel resumed its genocidal war on Gaza on March 18, 2025, to 7,450, with 26,479 others injured. The broader toll of the ongoing assault, which began on October 7, 2023, has now reached 58,026 Palestinian martyrs, including 833 civilians who were gunned down while attempting to collect humanitarian aid near U.S.-backed distribution points.

In its update, the Health Ministry confirmed that 138,520 people have been wounded since the beginning of the war, many suffering life-altering injuries. Among the wounded are 5,432 aid seekers who were targeted near food and medical aid convoys.

The Ministry stressed that efforts to retrieve the bodies of those still trapped under the rubble are ongoing, but Israeli attacks on rescue crews and continued aerial bombardments have made such missions perilous, often fatal.

Entire neighborhoods remain flattened, and with critical infrastructure obliterated, Gaza’s hospitals are on the brink of total collapse. The already-besieged medical sector has been overwhelmed by mass casualty events, lacking electricity, basic medicines, and even clean water.

Despite growing international condemnation and calls for a ceasefire, Israel continues its indiscriminate airstrikes and shelling, leaving a trail of devastation across densely populated civilian areas, including refugee camps, UN-run shelters, and hospitals.

Palestinian civil society groups and human rights monitors have labeled the campaign a genocide, citing Israel’s systematic targeting of noncombatants, enforced famine, and obstruction of humanitarian relief. Testimonies from survivors and medical staff describe a reality of collective punishment, starvation, and the daily killing of children, women, and elderly.

Global outrage has mounted, especially after revelations that aid seekers are being deliberately targeted, turning desperate food distribution points into deadly ambushes. UN officials have repeatedly denounced these attacks as war crimes.

Despite rulings from the International Court of Justice ordering Israel to halt actions that could constitute genocide, and calls from humanitarian organizations for unfettered aid access, the Israeli government—backed by U.S. political and military support—has escalated its campaign.

As Gaza continues to burn under bombardment and siege, Palestinians and their allies worldwide are calling for immediate international intervention, justice for the victims, and an end to what many now call the defining atrocity of the 21st century. (ILKHA)