RAFAH: The death toll of Palestinians in the almost eight-month ongoing Israeli war in the besieged Gaza Strip have soared to 36,284, the Palestinian health ministry said on Friday.
The health ministry said that at least 60 Palestinians have been killed in the past 24 hours.
More than 82,057 Palestinians have also been wounded in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of war on October 7 last year.
Earlier on Thursday, a US State Department official said she had resigned from her post to protest a report to Congress that falsely stated Israel was not blocking humanitarian aid to Gaza.
Stacy Gilbert, who served in the State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration, was an expert working on the report.
“There is so clearly a right and wrong, and what is in that report is wrong,” Gilbert said in an interview.
The United Nations and humanitarian aid groups have long complained of the consequences and obstacles to getting aid in and distributing it throughout Gaza.
As the Palestinian death toll in Gaza has surpassed 36,000 and a humanitarian crisis has engulfed the besieged enclave, human rights groups and other critics have criticized the US for providing weapons to Israel and largely defending the conduct of Israel.
