GAZA — The death toll of the Zionist genocidal aggression against the Gaza Strip, ongoing since 7 October 2023, climbed to 40,334 martyrs and 93,356 wounded, the Palestinian health authorities noted on Saturday.

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According to the same source, the Zionist occupation army committed 5 massacres over the past 48 hours in the Gaza Strip, killing 69 martyrs and wounding 212.

The same source noted that several Palestinian victims remained under the rubble and on the roads, and that the occupation forces were preventing the first aid and civil defence teams from reaching them.

Since last 7 October, the Zionist army has been waging savage aggression against the Palestinian enclave, causing massive destruction of infrastructure, in addition to an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe.[/ecr]