Israeli Strikes in Gaza Kill 106 Palestinians Over 24 Hours

by Dave DeCamp*
May 8, 2025

Gaza’s Health Ministry said on Thursday that Israeli attacks killed 106 Palestinians and wounded 367 over the previous 24-hour period as relentless Israeli strikes continue to pound the Strip amid a more than two-month total blockade.

The Health Ministry’s numbers account for dead and wounded Palestinians brought to hospitals and morgues. “There are still a number of victims under the rubble and on the streets, and ambulance and civil defense crews cannot reach them,” the ministry wrote on Telegram.

According to the Palestinian news agency WAFA, Israeli attacks included a strike on a fish market west of Gaza City, which killed seven civilians. Al Jazeera reported that three Palestinians were killed by Israeli strikes in central Gaza.

Medical sources told Al Jazeera that at least 16 Palestinians had been killed in Gaza since dawn on Thursday, meaning most of the deaths reported by the Health Ministry occurred on Wednesday. Attacks on Wednesday included heavy strikes in Gaza City, which targeted a restaurant and a school sheltering displaced Palestinians.

Hamas’s military wing, the al-Qassam Brigades, said Thursday that its forces were engaged in “fierce point-blank clashes” with Israeli soldiers in the southern city of Rafah. There have been reports of Israeli casualties and that IDF troops had been trapped under the rubble of a building that was rigged with explosives, but so far, there has been no confirmation from Israeli media.

The Health Ministry said that since Israel resumed its genocidal war on March 18, at least 2,651 Palestinians have been killed, and 7,223 were injured. The numbers account for dead and wounded Palestinians brought to hospitals and morgues.

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Since October 7, 2023, the ministry’s death toll has reached 52,760, and the number of wounded has climbed to 119,264, figures that don’t account for thousands missing and presumed dead under the rubble or indirect deaths caused by the Israeli siege.

*Dave DeCamp is the news editor of Antiwar

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