Gaza’s Health Ministry spokesman says about 18,000 Palestinians have been killed and 49,500 wounded in Israeli attacks since October 7.
Ashraf al-Qudra told Al Jazeera in a telephone interview that the death toll included 297 people killed and more than 550 wounded in the past 24 hours.
Israel’s relentless bombardment continues along with ground operations that have forced hundreds of thousands of people from the northern and central areas to the increasingly overcrowded south.
