Aid site massacres continue in Gaza, death toll reaches 61,369
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Gaza’s Health Ministry reports over 61,000 killed since October 7, with rising deaths from Israeli strikes, aid site attacks, and hunger.
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Palestinian women mourn over the body of their father, who was killed while trying to reach aid trucks entering the northern Gaza Strip through the Zikim, Gaza City, occupied Palestine, Monday, Aug. 4, 2025 (AP)
The Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip announced that 39 fatalities and 491 injured individuals have been admitted to hospitals in the region in 24 hours.
The Ministry stated that the Israeli genocide since October 7, 2023, has now claimed 61,369 lives and left 152,850 wounded, with 9,862 dead and 40,809 injured since March 18, 2025.
The Health Ministry reported that 21 Palestinians were killed and 341 others wounded in the past day near aid distribution points, with the total casualties in such incidents having now risen to 1,743 dead and over 12,590 injured.
Meanwhile, another 11 people died from starvation and malnutrition in 24 hours, bringing the total number of hunger-related deaths to 212, including 98 children.
Aid site massacres rage on
Al Mayadeen's correspondent reported that 5 people were killed near an aid center along the Netzarim axis in central Gaza, while 10-year-old Mohannad Zakaria Eid died after being struck by an airdropped aid package west of the Nuseirat camp, making him the fourth child his parents have lost.
Israeli strikes claimed two lives near a US-run aid distribution center in southwest Khan Younis, with an additional fatality and one wounded person reported after an attack on a residential building in western Khan Younis.
Furthermore, seven Palestinians were killed and dozens were wounded after Israeli forces struck areas north of the Nuseirat refugee camp, while other attacks targeted crowds near an aid distribution point along Salah al-Din Street, south of Wadi Gaza in the central Strip.
Medical sources at Al-Awda Hospital reported receiving five fatalities and 33 injuries from Israeli shelling targeting northern Nuseirat camp, while artillery strikes on crowds near an aid distribution point south of Wadi Gaza killed two more civilians and wounded others.
Israeli artillery shelled the Zeitoun neighborhood in southeast Gaza City, while simultaneously, a drone struck near the Al-Shahid Mosque east of the al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza.
