248 Palestinians killed, injured due to Israeli genocidal crimes during past 24 hours

GAZA, June 03 (YPA) – The death toll from Israeli war crimes in Gaza has risen to 54,510 martyrs and 124,901 wounded since the start of the Israeli aggression on the Strip on October 7, 2023, according to the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip.

The Gaza Health Ministry reported in its statistical report on Tuesday that the Strip’s hospitals received 40 martyrs and 208 wounded during the past 24 hours as a result of the ongoing Israeli war of extermination, bringing the death toll from the ongoing 20-month-long extermination to 178,856 martyrs and wounded.

She indicated that among the martyrs were 5 martyrs who were pulled from under the rubble of a house that had been previously bombed.

She also stated that the death toll from the occupation’s resumption of its genocide in the Strip on March 18 has risen to 4,240 martyrs and 12,860 wounded.

The ministry pointed out that a number of victims are still under the rubble of destroyed homes and on the roads, whereas ambulance and civil defense crews are unable to reach them.