5 killed in Gaza while seeking aid; staggering toll on the rise
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Gaza’s Health Ministry says 47 Palestinians were killed in 24 hours as Israeli strikes escalate, raising the death toll to over 65,500 since October 2023.
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Palestinians carry the body of Hassan Nasr, 12, from the rubble of his relatives' home, which was hit by an Israeli military strike in Zawaida, central Gaza Strip, Thursday, September 25, 2025. (AP)
47 Palestinians were killed and 142 others were wounded in 24 hours as the Israeli occupation intensified its assault on the besieged territory, the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza announced in its daily report.
The ministry said the total death toll from the ongoing Israeli war on Gaza since October 7, 2023, as of September 26, 2025, has climbed to 65,549, in addition to 167,518 injuries. Since March 18, 2025, alone, 12,956 have been killed and 55,477 have been injured.
Among the dead are five Palestinians killed while attempting to obtain humanitarian aid, bringing the total number of martyrs of livelihood to 2,543, with more than 18,614 injured.
Rescue teams continue to struggle to reach many victims trapped under rubble and in the streets due to ongoing bombardment.
Heavy bombardment across Gaza
Al Mayadeen’s correspondent reported that at least 48 Palestinians were killed in strikes since dawn Friday, with Gaza City facing a sharp escalation.
Israeli aircraft struck multiple areas, killing three Palestinians near the Jerjawi fuel station on Al-Nafaq Street in northern Gaza. Another three were killed near al-Mashahra Mosque in the al-Tuffah neighborhood in eastern Gaza City.
Several were wounded after strikes near the Ghaban café in the al-Shati' refugee camp. One Palestinian was killed and others were injured when a home in al-Rimal, western Gaza, was targeted.
In central Gaza, ten Palestinians, including two children, were killed while seeking aid along the Netzarim axis, and others were wounded near al-Salah Charitable School in western Deir al-Balah. In Rafah, one Palestinian was killed and five were injured in a strike near the al-Shakoush aid center.
The Health Ministry warned Thursday that Gaza’s hospitals are facing the imminent shutdown of blood banks due to a lack of lab supplies and transfusion equipment. Severe shortages in medical consumables and blood units are compounding the crisis, it added.
Civilians sustain war injuries beyond combat troops
Civilians in Gaza have sustained injuries of a type and on a scale more usually seen among professional soldiers involved in intense combat operations, a new research has found.
The study published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) found that some types of wounds, such as burns or injuries to legs, were more common among civilians in Gaza than among US soldiers fighting in the wars on Iraq and Afghanistan.
“Injured civilians in Gaza are experiencing a pattern of wounds that you would expect in intense combat with military professionals. The distribution and nature [of injuries] is almost the same or worse,” bioethicist Bilal Irfan, one of the study's authors, told The Guardian.
The peer-reviewed research, which is the first of its kind, drew on data provided between August 2024 and February 2025 by dozens of international medical professionals who have worked in Gaza during the nearly two-year-long war.
