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At least 36 people have died in the Gaza Strip as a result of Israeli military operations since dawn Saturday, according to reports provided by various hospitals in the Palestinian enclave and cited by Arab media.
Among the dead are at least eight people who died while waiting to receive humanitarian aid amid the serious food crisis caused by the Israeli blockade, according to the Al Jazeera television network.
In one of the most serious incidents, Israeli artillery shelled tents for displaced people in the Asdaa area, northwest of Khan Yunis, killing 17 civilians, including six children and a baby, according to sources cited by the Palestinian news agency WAFA.
Nearby, in Al Mawasi, west of Khan Yunis in the south of the Palestinian enclave, another person, a woman, was killed in an Israeli airstrike on a tent for displaced people, according to sources at the Nasser Medical Center.
One of the latest deaths is an individual who was in a house bombed by an Israeli drone in Deir al-Bala, in the central Gaza Strip, according to sources at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Health of the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip government has reported the deaths of eight people from malnutrition in the last 24 hours, including two children. This brings the total number of deaths in recent weeks as a direct result of food shortages to 281, including 114 children, in the enclave, where the Gaza governorate, which includes Gaza City, is already under an official famine declaration.
The latest official report from the Gaza Ministry of Health raises the number of "martyrs" to 62,263 and the number of wounded to 157,365 since October 7, 2023, the date on which Israel launched the retaliatory military operation on the Gaza Strip in response to an attack by Palestinian militias that resulted in some 1,200 deaths.
