Gaza death toll exceeds 51,100 as Israel kills 92 more Palestinians

Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip killed at least 92 more Palestinians, bringing the death toll from Israel’s genocidal war since October 2023 to 51,157, the Health Ministry said on Saturday.

A ministry statement said that 219 more injured people were transferred to hospitals over the last 48 hours, taking the number of injuries to 116,724 in the Israeli onslaught.

"Many victims are still trapped under the rubble and on the roads as rescuers are unable to reach them,” it added.

Palestinians mourn over the bodies of their relatives killed in an Israeli army airstrike in Khan Younis. AP

The dead include 15 people who were killed overnight, among them women and children, some of whom were sheltering in a designated humanitarian zone, according to hospital staff.

At least 11 people were killed in the southern city of Khan Younis, several of them in a tent in the Mwasi area where hundreds of thousands of displaced people are living, hospital worker said. Israel has designated it as a humanitarian zone.

Women mourn Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes at the Indonesian hospital in Beit Lahyia. Reuters

Four other people were killed in separate strikes in Rafah city, including a mother and her daughter, according to the European Hospital, where the bodies were brought. Israel has vowed to intensify attacks across Gaza and occupy large "security zones" inside the strip.

A Palestinian child waits to receive a hot meal at a free food distribution point in the central Gaza Strip. AFP

For six weeks Israel also has blockaded Gaza, barring the entry of food and other goods. This week, aid groups raised alarm saying that thousands of children have become malnourished, and most people are barely eating one meal a day as stocks dwindle, according to the United Nations.

On Friday, Dr Hanan Balkhy, the head of the World Health Organisation's eastern Mediterranean office, urged the new US ambassador in Israel, Mike Huckabee, to push the country to lift Gaza's blockade so medicines and other aid can enter the strip. "I would wish for him to go in and see the situation firsthand," she said.

Agencies