The Ministry of Health in the besieged Gaza Strip has confirmed yet another bloody 24 hours, with 39 Palestinians martyred and 491 others injured as the Israeli occupation’s genocidal campaign shows no sign of abating.

According to the Ministry, the Israeli regime’s relentless assault, ongoing since October 7, 2023, has now claimed 61,369 Palestinian lives and left 152,850 wounded. Since March 18, 2025 alone, at least 9,862 have been killed and 40,809 injured.

A significant portion of the latest casualties occurred at so-called “aid distribution points,” which have repeatedly been turned into killing grounds by Israeli fire. In the past day, 21 Palestinians were martyred and 341 injured in such attacks. This brings the total toll from aid site massacres to 1,743 killed and more than 12,590 wounded since the beginning of the campaign.

The humanitarian catastrophe deepened further as starvation claimed 11 more lives, including children. The death toll from famine and malnutrition has now risen to 212 Palestinians, among them 98 children, a direct consequence of Israel’s deliberate blockade on food and humanitarian supplies.

Local sources reported that five Palestinians were killed in Israeli shelling near an aid center along the Netzarim axis in central Gaza. In a separate tragedy, 10-year-old Mohannad Zakaria Eid was killed when a parachuted aid package struck him west of the Nuseirat camp — the fourth child his grief-stricken parents have lost in this genocide.

Occupation forces also killed two Palestinians near a U.S.-run aid distribution center in southwest Khan Younis. Another civilian was martyred and one wounded after an airstrike targeted a residential building in western Khan Younis.

North of the Nuseirat refugee camp, at least seven Palestinians were killed and dozens wounded when Israeli forces struck densely populated areas. Additional attacks targeted crowds near an aid distribution site along Salah al-Din Street, south of Wadi Gaza, leaving further casualties.

Medical staff at Al-Awda Hospital reported receiving five bodies and 33 wounded following Israeli shelling in northern Nuseirat. Artillery fire on civilians gathered near an aid point south of Wadi Gaza killed two more and injured several others.

Israeli artillery also shelled the Zeitoun neighborhood in southeast Gaza City. At the same time, occupation drones attacked the vicinity of Al-Shahid Mosque east of the al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, further intensifying the atmosphere of fear and devastation across the besieged enclave.

The escalating massacres at aid distribution sites, combined with the tightening siege and targeted attacks on hospitals, neighborhoods, and refugee camps, are creating what Palestinian officials describe as a deliberate policy of annihilation.

As the death toll mounts, calls from Palestinian and international humanitarian organizations for urgent intervention continue to be ignored by world powers — leaving the people of Gaza to face starvation, bombardment, and displacement under the shadow of an unrestrained occupation. (ILKHA)