Medical sources announced today, Saturday, that the death toll in the Gaza Strip had risen to 31,553 citizens, the majority of whom were children and women, since the 7th of last October.

The same sources added that the number of wounded has risen to 73,546 since the start of the aggression, while thousands of victims are still under the rubble.

It pointed out that the Israeli forces committed 7 massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, resulting in the death of 63 citizens and the injury of 112 others, during the past 24 hours.

It explained that a number of victims are still under the rubble and on the roads, and ambulance and civil defense crews are unable to reach them.

The occupation forces withdraw from Hamad Town in Khan Yunis under intense artillery cover

Press sources said that Israeli army artillery targeted areas northeast of the city of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip.

The sources added that the Israeli forces were withdrawing from the north of Hamad Town in Khan Yunis under cover of intense artillery shelling, which led to the injury of several Palestinians in the city.

The aggression against Gaza entered a new day in which the Strip witnessed more bombing and raids, in light of the deteriorating humanitarian conditions and the scarcity of aid.

Today, 3 people were killed as a result of an Israeli bombing that targeted a house in Khirbet Al-Adas, north of the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, according to Al-Arabi’s correspondent.

At night, the Israeli forces bombed a 7-storey residential building housing displaced people near Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, resulting in the death and injury of dozens, a large number of whom are still under the rubble.

Israeli artillery also targeted two homes in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip, killing at least 36 people and wounding a number of others.

In the northern Gaza Strip, Israeli artillery shelling targeted the east of the town of Beit Hanoun.

Meanwhile, the White House expressed a cautiously optimistic tone after Hamas presented a proposal to secure a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.