The Ministry of Health in Gaza announced on Thursday that the number of victims of the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Strip since October 7 has risen to 25,900 killed and 64,110 wounded.

The ministry said in a press conference by its spokesman Ashraf Al-Qudra, “The Israeli occupation committed 21 massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, claiming 200 killed and 370 wounded during the past 24 hours.”

The ministry added, "The Israeli occupation is committing genocide in UNRWA shelter centers and in the Al-Mawasi area, which it claims is safe."

Al Jazeera confirmed that 20 Palestinians were killed and 150 others were injured in an Israeli bombing of citizens while they were waiting for humanitarian aid at the Kuwait Square, east of the Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza City.

It explained that the occupation tanks fired shells and direct bullets at the citizens after they surrounded the area, noting that the area where the citizens gathered is the only point from which the already very limited aid enters.

For his part, Civil Defense spokesman Mahmoud Basal said that the Civil Defense forces are unable to reach the area as a result of the occupation forces’ siege on it.

On the 111th day of the aggression against Gaza, the Israeli army focused its bombing on Khan Yunis and targeted the Nasser Medical Complex and a center for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) housing thousands of displaced people, resulting in more than 50 dead.

Medical sources said that 3 Palestinians - including two children - were killed in an Israeli bombing that targeted the Al-Satar Al-Gharbi area, north of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.

The Israeli occupation aircraft also continued its violent bombardment in the Al-Amal neighborhood and the vicinity of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, west of the city of Khan Yunis.