News Center- The death toll in Israel’s attacks on the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023 has risen to 52,760.

 Four Palestinians, including three members of the same family, were killed early Friday morning in Israeli airstrikes targeting two residential areas in the central and western parts of the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported on Friday.

 According to the news agency, a home belonging to the Hamdan family in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza was hit by Israeli warplanes, killing Rashad Abu Hayya, his wife Safa, and their infant son Amr. An Israeli drone targeted a residential building in the Al-Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City on early Friday morning, killing a resident, Jasser Shamieh, and injuring several others.

At least 65,000 children at risk of starvation

More than 65,000 children in the Gaza Strip are at risk of starvation, according to the Government Media Office in Gaza, accusing Israel of intensifying the suffering of Palestinian children as a result of the ongoing genocide and the oppressive blockade that the occupation state has imposed on the enclave. “Israel has destroyed 26 soup kitchens and 37 aid distribution centers since October 2023, the government media office said in a statement in March.

Since October 7, 2023, at least 52,760 Palestinians have been killed and 119,264 others injured in Israel’s attacks on the Gaza Strip, according to the Gaza’s health ministry.

Since October 2023, at least 57 Palestinians have starved to death in the Gaza Strip as Israel’s blockade of critical humanitarian aid to the besieged enclave stretches into its third month amid relentless bombardments and 17 Palestinians, including 14 children, have died from hypothermia.