The Ministry of Health in Gaza announced on Tuesday that the death toll from the Israeli war on the Strip had risen to 20,915 dead and 54,918 injured since October 7.

Ministry spokesman Ashraf Al-Qudra said: “The toll of the Israeli aggression has risen to 20,915 dead and 54,918 injuries since October 7.”

He explained that the Israeli army "committed during the past 24 hours about 18 massacres against entire families, resulting in 241 dead and 382 injuries."

He expressed "the fear that targeting the vicinity of the Nasser Medical Complex (in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip) is a repetition of the scenario implemented by the army against the Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City and hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip."

Al-Qudra called on "the international institutions to protect the Nasser Medical Complex and to protect the medical staff, the wounded, the sick, and the thousands of displaced people there."

He also called on international institutions to "conduct urgent interventions to ensure the provision of the necessary medicines and fuel to restart the Shifa Medical Complex in the face of the need of thousands of wounded and sick people."

At dawn on Tuesday, Israeli warplanes launched violent raids in the vicinity of the Nasser Medical Complex, in the city of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.

The Israeli army is escalating its war on the Gaza Strip’s hospitals and health teams, as part of a devastating war on Gaza that it has been waging since last October 7, which has left material and human losses, massive infrastructure destruction and an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe, according to the Gaza Strip authorities and the United Nations.