Gaza Health reports 69 martyrs from Israeli massacres in 24 hours
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The Health Ministry in Gaza reports that 69 Palestinians were killed and 221 injured in the past 24 hours.
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Palestinians injured in an Israeli strike are brought to Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on June 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Mariam Dagga)
The Ministry of Health in Gaza has confirmed that 69 Palestinians were killed and 221 others injured in the past 24 hours as a result of ongoing Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip.
Among the martyrs are two individuals whose bodies were recovered from beneath the rubble.
"I just wanted to bring food home to my family. The aid truck ran over me."
— TIMES OF GAZA (@Timesofgaza) June 18, 2025
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According to the ministry, emergency and civil defense teams continue to face serious challenges in reaching those trapped under collapsed buildings and stranded on roads, with relentless Israeli bombardment hampering rescue operations.
The other side of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation: today 22 more Palestinians killed by firing squads: it isn’t aid distribution, it’s slaughter pic.twitter.com/UDYFvG5emD
— Sarah Wilkinson (@swilkinsonbc) June 19, 2025
Since the start of the Israeli assault on October 7, 2023, the total death toll in Gaza has risen to 55,706, with 130,101 people reported injured. The Health Ministry also noted that from March 18, 2025, to date, 5,401 Palestinians have been killed and 18,060 wounded during the escalation.
As of Thursday morning, hospitals have received at least 12 bodies of Palestinians killed while waiting for humanitarian aid, along with over 172 injuries sustained in the same incidents.
Massacres await the starved in Gaza
On Wednesday, at least 69 Palestinians were killed by Israeli occupation forces across the Gaza Strip, including 29 starved civilians waiting for food aid, Al Mayadeen’s correspondent reported, in what has become a harrowing daily massacre.
The killings reportedly occur near a facility operated by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a controversial aid mechanism established under US sponsorship and directly coordinated with Israeli occupation forces.
The GHF has become a centerpiece of a new militarized aid model imposed after "Israel" partially eased its three-month siege. However, this model has increasingly been linked to mass killings, sparking outrage from humanitarian organizations and Palestinians alike.
Concurrently, Gaza’s Civil Defense announced the retrieval of 15 bodies of Palestinian martyrs from the al-Sudaniya area in northern Gaza, victims who had reportedly been awaiting aid five days earlier when invading Israeli units slaughtered them.
The retrieval came only after repeated coordination efforts with the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). Several individuals remain unaccounted for, with search operations ongoing.
Seven Palestinians were killed and several others were wounded when Israeli warplanes targeted a group of civilians near al-Taqwa Mosque in the al-Bureij refugee camp, located in central Gaza. Another Israeli strike in the al-Tuffah neighborhood northeast of Gaza City killed three Palestinians near al-Shurafa roundabout, according to Al Mayadeen's correspondent.
