A total of 27,947 Palestinians have been killed and 67,459 have been injured in Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7, the Gaza health ministry said in a statement on Friday.

Some 107 Palestinians were killed and 142 injured in the past 24 hours, the ministry added.

At least nine people, including children and women, were killed in Israeli airstrikes overnight into Friday in the central area of the Gaza Strip and in the southern city of Rafah on the border with Egypt, witnesses and hospital officials said.

More than half of Gaza’s 2.3 million population has been driven by Israel’s military offensive toward the border with Egypt. Unable to leave the tiny Palestinian territory, many are living in makeshift tent camps or overflowing UN-run shelters.

Source: Asharq Al-Awsat 

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