By Staff Reporter
Israeli strikes have killed at least 85 people in Gaza since the early hours of Thursday, medical sources tell Al Jazeera, and casualties are continuing to mount amid unrelenting bombardments.
Gaza’s Health Ministry says 29 children and elderly people who died in recent days in Gaza have been registered as “starvation-related deaths”, and thousands more are at risk of starving.
Israel has bombed towns in southern and eastern Lebanon, killing at least one person, in what has been described as some of the heaviest attacks since a ceasefire with Hezbollah was reached in November.
Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 53,762 Palestinians and wounded 122,197, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. The Government Media Office updated the death toll to more than 61,700, saying thousands of people missing under the rubble are presumed dead.