The death toll from the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip has risen to 50,021 dead and 113,274 injuries since October 7, 2023. A further 673 martyrs and 1,233 injuries have been recorded since the resumption of Israeli military attacks on the Gaza Strip, including 41 dead and 61 injuries in the past 24 hours, the Palestinian Ministry of Health reported on Sunday.

The Israeli army continued its renewed aggression on the Gaza Strip for the sixth consecutive day, launching new ground operations in the northern Gaza Strip and continuing its incursion into the Rafah area and the Netzarim axis, under the cover of intensive air strikes. This resulted in hundreds of civilian deaths and injuries, most of them women, children and the elderly. Today, it issued orders to evacuate the Tel al-Sultan neighborhood west of Rafah, announcing the start of a military operation in the area.

On Sunday morning, Hamas political bureau member Salah al-Bardawil and his wife were killed in an Israeli airstrike west of Khan Younis. Hamas said in a statement that al-Bardawil and his wife were killed in a "treacherous Zionist assassination operation" while they were staying in their tent in the al-Mawasi area on the night of the 23rd of Ramadan. It added that this is "part of a series of brutal massacres committed by the enemy against our steadfast and patient people in the Gaza Strip."

This comes as Israeli military vehicles advanced into the Tel al-Sultan neighborhood amid relentless gunfire, with artillery moving from east to west, and warplanes and helicopters flying overhead, along with reconnaissance aircraft and quadcopters.

On Sunday, Israeli occupation forces besieged more than 50,000 Palestinian civilians in the Barakat area west of Rafah Governorate, prompting the General Directorate of Civil Defense in the Gaza Strip to warn of "an imminent danger threatening their lives." Meanwhile, the Civil Defense Directorate and the Red Crescent Society announced they had lost contact with ambulance and rescue crews besieged by the occupation in Rafah.