The death toll in the Gaza Strip rises to 55,706.

The Ministry of Health in Gaza announced on Thursday that the death toll in the Gaza Strip has risen to 55,706, the majority of whom are children and women, since the start of the Israeli occupation's aggression on October 7, 2023.

She added that the death toll has risen to 130,101 since the start of the aggression, while a number of victims remain under the rubble, unable to be reached by ambulances and civil defense teams.

She noted that 69 martyrs and 221 injuries arrived at Gaza Strip hospitals over the past 24 hours, while the death toll and injury toll since March 18, when the occupation violated the ceasefire agreement, has reached 5,401 martyrs and 18,060 injuries.

She confirmed that the number of martyrs who arrived at hospitals awaiting aid since this morning has reached 12 martyrs, and more than 172 injured.

She pointed out that a number of victims are still under the rubble and on the streets, and that ambulance and civil defense crews are unable to reach them.

Latest developments: Martyrs and wounded in Israeli bombing of a tent housing displaced people in the Tel al-Hawa area, south of Gaza City.

The bodies of five martyrs were recovered following an earlier Israeli bombing of a house in the Zeitoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City.

In the southern Gaza Strip, six civilians were killed and dozens injured when an Israeli tank shelled people waiting for aid on al-Tina Street, southwest of Khan Yunis.

Meanwhile, a source at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza confirmed that 13 citizens were killed and dozens more were injured in Israeli raids on Al-Shati refugee camp and Al-Jalaa Street.

Seven civilians were killed and others injured when an Israeli airstrike targeted a tent housing displaced persons near the Al-Sousi Mosque in the Al-Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City.