Relatives of Mohammed al-Mabhouh,15, who was killed by the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, mourn over his body at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, Sunday, January 5, 2025. (AP)

The Israeli occupation committed five massacres against families in 24 hours only, killing 88 people and injuring 208 others, the Ministry of Health in Gaza reported on Sunday in its daily statistical update.

The ministry further disclosed that since October 7, 2023, the death toll has risen to 45,805, with 109,064 injuries recorded. Rescue and civil defense teams are still unable to reach numerous victims trapped under rubble or lying in inaccessible streets, exacerbating the humanitarian crisis.

Relentless attacks across Gaza

The Israeli occupation continues its aggression for the 457th consecutive day, targeting multiple areas across the besieged Gaza Strip and causing further casualties.

Two were martyred and several were injured in an Israeli drone attack on the town of Abasan, east of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.

Israeli bombardment targeting Al-Nazzaz Street in the Shuja'iya neighborhood, east of Gaza City, resulted in the killing of one person and the injury of several others.

Moreover, according to Al Mayadeen's correspondent, an airstrike on the Asdaa Center in western Khan Younis, which housed displaced individuals, claimed the lives of six people in southern Gaza.

A number of Palestinian people are killed by the israelis, and others injured in an air strike hitting Asda City police centre in Khan Younis, south #Gaza pic.twitter.com/Ef2jBcNXXy
— Sarah Wilkinson (@swilkinsonbc) January 5, 2025

In Gaza City, Israeli artillery shelled southern areas of the Sabra neighborhood, intensifying the devastation in the southern part of the city.

In central Gaza, the attacks persisted as artillery strikes targeted the vicinity of al-Mufti land, north of Nuseirat. Another airstrike claimed five lives in Camp 1, also in central Nuseirat. Nearby, Al-Awda Hospital reported receiving three injured individuals from an artillery attack on a residential apartment in the Hammam building on Salah Al-Din Street near the entrance to al-Bureij.

In the northern part of Gaza, four people were killed and others were injured when Israeli forces shelled a gathering of civilians in Jabalia.

Worsening crisis

As Gaza faces unrelenting bombardment, the scale of destruction continues to mount, leaving thousands of families displaced and infrastructure decimated.

Gaza’s Health Ministry warned Sunday of a severe shortage of medicine and medical supplies amid the ongoing genocide, Anadolu Agency reported.

“Stocks of 120 medicines, including 20 cancer treatments, are completely depleted in the ministry’s warehouses,” health official Wael al-Sheikh told the official Palestine TV.

He said the ministry’s debt is nearing three billion shekels (approximately $800 million).

On Saturday, the Ministry of Health announced that another major hospital in northern Gaza had been forced to cease operations due to Israeli attacks. This comes after the forced closures of Kamal Adwan and Beit Hanoun hospitals, which were rendered inoperable following Israeli incursions and deliberate attacks.

The Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahia "no longer provides any services to patients or the wounded," the ministry stated, further highlighting the dire state of Gaza's healthcare system amid the ongoing aggression.