APRIL 18: Smoke rises following Israeli attacks on the Tuffah neighborhood in eastern Gaza City, Gaza on April 18, 2025. Photojournalist:Mahmoud İssa
Medical sources tell Al Jazeera that at least 64 people have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since dawn on Friday, and casualties continue to mount.
The UN’s World Food Programme issues an urgent warning that “Gaza needs food now” as hundreds of thousands of people are at risk of hunger.
Al Jazeera’s correspondent in Gaza says people are “psychologically broken” amid unrelenting Israeli bombing and have no food for their children due to the Israeli blockade on aid supplies.
Gaza’s Health Ministry says at least 51,065 Palestinians have been confirmed dead and 116,505 wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza since it began 18 months ago.
The Gaza Government Media Office updated its death toll to more than 61,700, saying thousands of people missing under the rubble are presumed dead. At least 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, attacks, and more than 200 were taken captive.
