The total number of deaths in Gaza has reached 8.005, while 20.242 are injured, an official spokesman for the Ministry of Health in Gaza, which is under the control of the Islamist organization Hamas, said today.
The dead include 3.324 children, 2.062 women and 460 elderly people, according to the same source.
Meanwhile, three Palestinians were killed this morning by Israeli army fire during military raids in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Authority's Ministry of Health said.
The three Palestinians were killed in clashes with the Israeli army in Beit Rima, in the Ramallah area, in Tamun and in the Askar refugee camp in the northern West Bank, respectively, according to the ministry.
The Israeli army said its soldiers "returned fire" in Beit Rima after receiving Molotov cocktails during an "anti-terrorist operation" in the area.
In Askar, "firefights took place between Palestinian armed men and a Palestinian force that entered the camp "to demolish the house" of an activist, according to the same source.
He also spoke of armed clashes with Palestinian activists during an operation aimed at arresting wanted Palestinians in the Jenin area, where Tamun is located.
At least 110 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank during Israeli military operations since the Israel-Hamas war broke out in the Gaza Strip on October 7, following the Palestinian group's deadly attack on Israeli soil.
The situation in the West Bank, occupied by Israel since 1967, was already tense before the war, with regular raids by the Israeli army, a resurgence of Israeli settler violence against the Palestinian population, and Palestinian attacks against Israeli settlements and security forces.
Yesterday, Saturday, a 40-year-old Palestinian man picking olives was killed by an Israeli settler in a village near a settlement in the Nablus region, according to the health ministry and the region's mayor.
Also, in another development, the head of the World Health Organization said today that reports that the Palestinian Red Crescent has received warnings from Israeli authorities to immediately evacuate the Al Quds hospital in the Gaza Strip are "very worrying".
"The Palestinian Red Crescent's report of threats to evacuate Al Quds Hospital in Gaza is very disturbing," Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus wrote on Platform X.
"We repeat it is impossible to evacuate hospitals full of patients without putting their lives in danger," he wrote.
Source: ΑΠΕ-ΚΥΠΕ