The toll includes at least 41 deaths in the past 24 hours, a ministry statement said, adding that a total of 85,299 people had been wounded in the Gaza Strip since fighting broke out on October 7.
Israel’s Defense Minister Yoav Gallant visited the area in southern Gaza where eight soldiers were killed in a Hamas attack, pledging the bombardment will go on, Al Jazeera reports.
“At the border of the Gaza Strip, together with the desert patrol battalion, [Israeli forces] continue to fight […] and are sent to appropriate missions in every sector in the air, at sea and on land,” said Gallant.
“The price is heavy but it is a battle of determination and perseverance to overwhelm the enemy.”The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society says that among the 9,300 people held by Israel are at least 75 women and 250 children, Al Jazeera reports.
It has stressed that the total number does not include all the people Israel detained in Gaza, estimating that there are thousands.
Israeli prison authorities have announced the detention of 899 Palestinians from the enclave under the classification of an illegal fighter, the group said.Israel has killed two people in Rafah’s Tal as-Sultan neighbourhood and targeted ambulances trying to respond to the casualties, according to Al Jazeera Arabic.
Tal as-Sultan, in western Rafah, still hosts hundreds of Palestinian families displaced by the war, according to Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud.
The neighbourhood has been especially hard hit in Israel’s latest wave of strikes, which destroyed many homes and public facilities.Despite a shortage of aid supplies, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) is working to hold festive Eid activities for displaced children in al-Mawasi, a designated evacuation zone near Khan Younis, Al Jazeera reports.
Most families in Gaza, impoverished and repeatedly displaced by Israel’s eight-month conflict, are unable to enjoy typical Eid traditions, including sacrificing a livestock animal or purchasing gifts and clothes for children.
