Palestinian death toll climbs to 29,782 as Israeli attacks on Gaza continue

The Palestinian death toll from Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7 has climbed to 29,782, the Health Ministry in the besieged enclave announced.

The ministry declared in a statement that 70,043 Palestinians have also been wounded in the relentless attacks by the Israeli army.

It added that in the past 24 hours, Israeli forces committed 10 massacres across the territory, killing 90 people and injuring 164 more while “many people are still trapped under rubble and on the roads and rescuers can’t reach them.”

Israel has been bombarding the Gaza Strip since a cross-border attack by Palestinian group Hamas in October, in which nearly 1,200 Israelis are believed to have been killed.

The conflict has displaced 85% of the territory’s population amid acute shortages of food, clean water, and medicine, while most of the enclave’s infrastructure has been damaged or destroyed.

Earlier, the head of the United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) warned that there is ‘looming famine’ in Gaza as the war in the enclave continues unabated.

Warning against “looming famine”, Philippe Lazzarini said the situation is becoming a “man-made disaster”.

According to data from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, no fewer than 500,000 people are facing famine while nearly the entire population of Gaza, 2.3 million people, is experiencing acute food shortage.