Gaza City, (Wafa, AA, Al Jazeera): Over the past 24 hours, Israeli indiscriminate bombings across the Gaza Strip killed 63 Palestinians and wounded 45 others, the Health Ministry said. This brings the total number of people killed in Gaza since October 7 to 33,545 including 14,520 children and 9,560 women, with 76,094 injured, according to the ministry. In addition further 12,000 Palestinians are reported missing, presumed dead under the rubble.

Israeli troops launched a deadly ground incursion into the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, killing at least five Palestinians, in its latest military operation.

The latest wave of Israeli strikes throughout Gaza have killed six people:

Two killed by shelling on a home in Gaza City’s Tal al-Hawa neighbourhood
Two killed by an air attack on a home in Jabalia camp
Two killed by strikes on Nuseirat camp
The latest deaths in Nuseirat camp bring the total number of people killed there today to seven, following our earlier reports.

USAID chief Samantha Power first US official to publicly say famine is happening in north Gaza, after she said she agreed with UN-backed assessment on hunger in the enclave. Samantha Power, the director of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), says that people in parts of northern Gaza have begun facing famine.

Her comments, made at a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Wednesday, mark the first public admission by a US official that famine has started in parts of the Gaza Strip.

“Food has not flowed in sufficient quantities to avoid this imminent famine in the south, and these conditions that are giving rise already to child deaths in the north,” she said during an exchange with Congressman Joaquin Castro.
Several people are killed in Israeli attacks on Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza and on Rafah in the south, as six more killed in attack on Gaza City market.
Israeli military has been scaling up its attacks.

At least eight Palestinians have been killed in an attack carried out close to Gaza City’s Ahli Arab Hospital.

The Jabalia refugee camp has also been attacked in the north of the territory. At least two Palestinians were killed there.

We’ve been hearing from residents in the camp that the attacks have been increasing. They are saying the Civil Defence crews are facing severe problems recovering people stuck under the rubble.

Battles have been raging in villages and towns that are adjacent to the Nuseirat refugee camp.

We can see the Israeli military destroying entire neighbourhoods using heavy firepower from artillery units on the ground with cover from fighter jets and surveillance drones.

A UNICEF aid convoy is hit by Israeli gunfire in the latest incident of humanitarian relief workers coming under attack in Gaza.
Israeli forces have bombed Gaza City’s Firas market, killing at least six people and wounding others, according witnesses who shared the footage of the aftermath of the attack on Telegram.

The wounded people were taken to Ahli Arab Hospital. One of the videos showed a middle-aged man with an abdominal wound walking into the hospital while leaning on another man.

Mohammed Abdul Latif Abu Saeed, a member of the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS), has died after being shot by Israeli forces two weeks ago during their storming of al-Amal Hospital in Khan Younis, the relief organisation has announced.

His death brings the total number of PRCS staff killed by Israeli forces during the Gaza war to 27, with 17 killed while on the job, according to the PRCS.

At least 10 people were killed in Israeli airstrikes on the blockaded Gaza Strip on Thursday, second day of the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Fitr, according to local medical sources.

Fighter jets struck a marketplace in central Gaza City, leaving eight people dead and several others injured, the sources said.

Two others lost their lives in Israeli shelling of the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, the sources said.

Casualties are also feared in an Israeli airstrike targeting a house next to Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza City, witnesses said. Israeli warplanes also struck two houses in the same city.

The UN Security Council (UNSC) expressed deep concern Thursday about the rising number of humanitarian workers killed in the Gaza Strip which stands at 224, marking an unprecedented level of danger faced by aid workers.

UNSC members pointed out in a statement seven aid workers from the World Central Kitchen (WCK) who were killed in Israeli airstrikes.

The UNSC emphasized that the 224 killed was three times the annual average in any conflict.

Members noted the need for accountability for all the deaths and underscored the necessity for the investigation into the killing of the WCK workers to be “transparent and comprehensive” and “fully publicized.”

“The members of the Security Council also demanded that all parties to the conflict fully respect the protected status of humanitarian workers, facilities, and operations under international law, abide by humanitarian notification and deconfliction mechanisms, and immediately remediate any deficiencies in these mechanisms,” it added.

Several people were killed and others were injured today in an Israeli bombing that targeted two markets in the Gaza Strip.

According to WAFA correspondent, at least six people were killed and 20 others were wounded in an Israeli bombing that targeted the popular Firas Market in Gaza City. Civil defense teams are still working to recover bodies and people who are still trapped under the rubble.

The occupation aircraft targeted the market with at least two missiles, destroying commercial facilities and vendors’ stands, which caused significant damage to the market.

Meanwhile, Israeli settlers set a Palestinian home and vehicle on fire in a village near the city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank.

Yaqoub Ewais, Mayor of al-Lubban Asharqiya village, said Palestinian residents confronted the settlers and pushed them out of the village, Anadolu news agency reports. The Palestinian news agency Wafa said at least one Palestinian was injured in the settler attack.

Tensions have been running high across the West Bank since Israel launched the bloody war on Gaza. At least 459 Palestinians have since been killed and 4,750 others wounded by the Israeli army in the Israeli-occupied territory since, according to the Health Ministry.

According to Israeli government 1,139 Israelis were killed by Hamas on 7 October in southern Israel and 134 Israelis and foreign nationals are still detained by Hamas in Gaza.