GAZA CITY (Dispatches) – At least 62 more Palestinians were killed and 300 others injured in Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, bringing the overall death toll since last year to 42,500, the Health Ministry in the Palestinian enclave said on Friday.
A ministry statement added a total of 99,546 others have been injured in the ongoing assault.
“Many people are still trapped under the rubble and on the roads as rescuers are unable to reach them,” it added.
Flouting a UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire, the Zionist regime has continued its brutal aggression on the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7, 2023.
The Zionist regime’s onslaught has displaced almost the entire population of the territory amid an ongoing blockade that has led to severe shortages of food, clean water, and medicine.
Also on Friday, at least five people were killed and several others injured in the Zionist regime airstrikes in different areas of southern Lebanon.
Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported that an Israeli airstrike targeted the town of Jwaya in the Tyre district of southern Lebanon, killing three people and injuring several others.
Debris removal operations are still ongoing, it added.
Two more people were killed in the town of Zrariyeh in the Zahrani area of the Nabatieh district in southern Lebanon, after an Israeli airstrike on the entrance to Wadi Khalil, the news agency reported.
Several airstrikes hit the town throughout Friday, it said, without providing additional information.
The Israeli army said Friday that it called up an additional reserve brigade to southern Lebanon.
In another development, at least two Zionist troops were injured in a shooting operation in the occupied territories near the Dead Sea, amid retaliatory attacks by Palestinians against the regime’s year-long onslaught on the besieged Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank.
The regime’s media said the attack occurred on Friday after three armed operatives “infiltrated Israel from Jordan,” and opened fire near the Neot HaKikar settlement south of the Dead Sea.
Reports claimed that two of the attackers were “neutralized,” and a manhunt was launched for the third one who fled the scene.
Meanwhile, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, an umbrella group of anti-terror fighters, conducted a fresh drone attack on a “key” Israeli target in the occupied territories.
“The fighters of the Islamic Resistance in Iraq on Friday morning attacked a vital target in the north of our occupied territories, using drones,” the group said in a statement.
The statement noted that the attack came as part of the operations conducted by the group in solidarity with the Palestinian and Lebanese peoples, amid ongoing Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip and Lebanon.
The Islamic Resistance in Iraq once again vowed to continue their escalating attacks against Israel.
On Thursday, the fighters conducted separate attacks on three key Israeli military sites, including in the city of Eilat (Umm al-Rashrash).