Gaza toll hits 27,365 with 127 killed by Israel in last 24 hours
A Palestinian youth rummages through the rubble of a building destroyed in Israeli attacks, Gaza, Palestine, Feb. 4, 2024. (AA Photo)


The Palestinian death toll in Gaza has climbed to 27,365 after the ongoing Israeli offensive killed another 127 people there over the last 24 hours, the besieged territory's Health Ministry said Sunday.

"The Israeli occupation committed 14 massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, leaving 127 martyrs and 178 injured during the past 24 hours," the ministry said in a statement.

"Many people are still trapped under rubble and on the roads as rescuers are unable to reach them," the statement said.

Despite the International Court of Justice’s provisional ruling, Israel continues its onslaught on the Gaza Strip where at least 27,365 Palestinians have been killed, mostly women and children, and 66,630 injured since Oct. 7, according to Palestinian health authorities.

Israel has pounded the Gaza Strip since the Hamas incursion, which Tel Aviv claims killed nearly 1,140 people.

The Israeli offensive has left 85% of Gaza’s population internally displaced amid acute shortages of food, clean water, and medicine, while 60% of the enclave’s infrastructure was damaged or destroyed, according to the U.N.