Over the past 24 hours, at least 46 people have been killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip, Al Jazeera reports.

Since Israel broke the ceasefire deal on March 18, at least 1,309 people have been killed and 3,184 wounded, adding to the wider Palestinian death toll since the conflict began on October 7, 2023, of more than 50,000.

 People carry the body of a Palestinian recovered from the site of an Israeli strike on a house, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on April 6, 2025. — Reuters
People carry the body of a Palestinian recovered from the site of an Israeli strike on a house, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on April 6, 2025. — Reuters

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