Gaza’s Health Ministry said on Thursday that at least 93 Palestinians were killed and 367 were wounded as a result of Israel’s genocidal war over the past 24-hour period, as relentless US-backed Israeli strikes continue.
The Health Ministry said that another body was recovered from the rubble. “A number of victims are still under the rubble and on the streets, where ambulance and civil defense crews are unable to reach them at this time,” the ministry wrote on Telegram.
The ministry recorded a total of 26 aid-related deaths and 32 injuries. The latest violence brings the total number of aid seekers killed since the US and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation began operating at the end of May to 877, and the number of wounded to 5,666. The UN has been reporting a slightly higher aid death toll than the Health Ministry.
Al Jazeera reported that eight Palestinians tasked with protecting aid trucks were killed by a drone strike on a convoy of aid trucks that were headed to northern Gaza. “Body parts were scattered and civil defense members had to collect them,” said Al Jazeera reporter Hani Mahmoud.
Israeli strikes on Thursday included the tank shelling of the Holy Family Catholic Church in Gaza City, Gaza’s sole Catholic Church, which killed at least three people and wounded several others. Other Israeli attacks on Gaza City killed at least 20 Palestinians.
The Health Ministry’s total death toll since October 7, 2023, has reached 58,667, and the number of wounded has climbed to 139,974. Studies have found that the ministry’s numbers are a significant undercount, and estimates that factor in indirect deaths caused by the Israeli siege and destruction of all of Gaza’s civilian infrastructure bring the death toll into the hundreds of thousands.
