Gaza, June 23, 2025 (WAFA) – Medical sources confirmed on Monday that the death toll in the Gaza Strip has risen to 55,998, the majority of whom are children and women, since the start of the Israeli aggression on October 7, 2023.

The same sources added that the death toll has risen to 131,559 since the start of the aggression, while a number of victims remain under the rubble, unable to be reached by ambulances and civil defense crews.

They indicated that 39 slain people, including one whose body was recovered, and 317 wounded were admitted to hospitals in the Gaza Strip during the past 24 hours. The death toll and the number of wounded since March 18, after the Israeli occupation violated the ceasefire agreement, has reached 5,685, while 19,518 others were wounded.

The sources added that the number of aid victims taken to hospitals over the past 24 hours reached 17, with more than 136 injured. This brings the total number of the victims at hospitals to 467, and the number of injured to more than 3,602.

They noted that a number of victims remain under the rubble and on the streets, and that ambulance and civil defense crews are unable to reach them.

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