The pace of bombing on Gaza has escalated, and the death toll has exceeded 67,000.

The Israeli occupation forces continued their intensive bombardment of various areas in the Gaza Strip, resulting in the martyrdom and injury of dozens in recent hours. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Health in Gaza announced that the death toll since the outbreak of the war two years ago has risen to more than 67,000 martyrs.

Reporters and medical sources reported an escalation in the bombardment of several areas in the strip, as occupation aircraft targeted residential buildings in Khan Younis city in the southern part of the strip. The Nasser Medical Complex confirmed the martyrdom of a Palestinian and the injury of others seeking aid near a distribution center north of Rafah city.

The Al-Awda Hospital also reported the martyrdom of a citizen in artillery shelling that targeted the vicinity of Wadi Gaza north of the Al-Nuseirat camp in the central strip. In Gaza city, residents retrieved the body of a martyr from the Al-Nasr neighborhood after he was targeted by an Israeli drone while checking his home, as his retrieval was delayed for days due to the intensity of the bombardment, while several martyrs remain in the same area.

In the Al-Sabra neighborhood in the southern part of the city, the occupation forces destroyed homes after detonating four military vehicles loaded with explosives within residential areas, causing widespread destruction to buildings and public facilities.

The government media office in Gaza stated that the occupation has carried out more than 230 air and artillery strikes since dawn on Saturday on areas densely populated with civilians and displaced persons, resulting in the martyrdom of 118 people, including women and children, with 72 martyrs in Gaza city alone.

It added that Israel "continues to commit clear massacres against civilians," emphasizing that the ongoing aggression "ignores calls for a ceasefire announced by U.S. President Donald Trump and the positive response provided to the proposal."

The office called on the international community and the U.S. administration to take urgent and effective action to stop the aggression and impose a real ceasefire.

For its part, the Ministry of Health in Gaza stated in a statement today, Wednesday, that 10 Palestinians were martyred and 61 others were injured in the past 24 hours, raising the total number of casualties from the Israeli aggression since October 7, 2023, to 67,183 martyrs and 169,841 injured.

It pointed out that several victims remain under the rubble or in the streets due to the difficulty of reaching ambulance and civil defense crews because of the ongoing bombardment.

The statement added that the recorded toll since March 18 of last year reached 13,588 dead and 57,800 injured, while the number of those martyred while trying to obtain humanitarian aid has risen to 2,613, with more than 19,000 injured.

For his part, the spokesperson for the International Committee of the Red Cross in Gaza, Hisham Mahna, stated that some of the committee's teams were subjected to direct attacks during their humanitarian work, noting that the committee's current priority is to support what remains of the exhausted health system in the strip.

In the same context, the United Nations and relief organizations warned of an unprecedented humanitarian disaster, explaining that more than 80% of the strip's population, which numbers about 2.3 million, have lost their homes or sources of livelihood.

Hospitals are also suffering from a severe shortage of fuel, medicines, and medical equipment, amid difficulties in delivering humanitarian aid due to the ongoing military operations and entry restrictions imposed at the crossings.