The Ministry of Health reported Gaza strip The number of martyrs as a result of the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip has risen to 24,927, while the number of those injured has risen to 62,388 since the seventh of last October.
The ministry said in a statement issued today, Saturday, that the occupation forces committed 14 massacres in Gaza during the past 24 hours, and that 165 Palestinians were martyred in those massacres, while 280 were injured during the past 24 hours.
The Ministry confirmed that a large number of victims are still under the rubble and on the roads.
Al Jazeera's correspondent said on Saturday that the Israeli occupation forces intensified their artillery shelling on Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, and Khan Yunis in the south, while violent clashes took place between the Palestinian resistance and the occupation forces in several areas.
The reporter added that air strikes and artillery shelling targeted Bani Suhaila, Al-Zana and Abasan, east of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.
In turn, Palestinian media said that occupation aircraft and artillery were intensively bombarding the Al-Amal neighborhood in Khan Yunis.
Video clips broadcast by Palestinian media showed Israeli occupation artillery firing flares in the vicinity of Nasser Hospital in the city of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, while the Palestinian Red Crescent announced that displaced people were injured in the occupation drones’ bombing of the association’s headquarters and Al-Amal Hospital.